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Thread: Where to media or Sand Blast in San Jose, CA?
          
   
   

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    Years ago I had a '68 Mustang sandblasted. Never again. For the longest time sand was coming out of all the hidden places. I would turn on the heater and sand would blow out, or slam a door and sand would fall out. I vacuumed, blew it out with air, swept, etc. but it took forever to get rid of it all.

    Media blasting looks cool to me, and I see they do it all the time on Overhaulin. Whether that is because of time constraints and they have to speed up the process, or that they just like the way it preps the body, I don't know. However, the body does come back as bare metal, minus the rusted areas.

    Don

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    I have a friend who is working on a 49 ford project,he sent the entire body,in pieces down to L.A. , minus the frame.The media that was used was walnut shells,I saw the car before and after and all i can say is what difference.The rusted spots exist no more and you have clean bare metal,well worth the 800 bucks he said it cost.It looked to me like all rust gone and 99.2 percent of the paint in the crevices.
    Its gunna take longer than u thought and its gunna cost more too(plan ahead!)

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