Sandblasting Pictures

So - I realized today after a couple of back and forth emails with Jason O. that I had yet to post pictures of the actual sandblasting that I had been doing.  So here goes.  The car is turning out nicely... and thus far I have only done the exterior.

At the point above - I really haven't done much with the blasting yet (note no sand on the ground).  There will be more- trust me.

Some more preparing - pinning the car into position showing underneath.  You can see where I had cleaned up the metal on the front and rear subframes in hopes to link them together before blasting - but I in the end decided to wait until I had the whole bottom done and sealed.

 OK - so note above - you can see that the steel has really been cleaned off now - (note a LOT less blue paint and rusty color along with it).  You can also see the sand all over the ground.  The tarps did a good job holding the sand in... and with the garage door up, it keep the sand from going up and over into the rest of the garage.

The Harbor Tools pressure pot blaster did a nice job - though I would say that the dead-man valve doesn't fare very well when it doesn't open all the way and get out of the way of the flow of sand- mine is eaten away a bit.

The other thing I picked up is a piece of sliding window screen for filling a garage door or under a window... as I sprayed the sand and ran out, I would recycle the sand through the two layers of metal screen, which took all the larger particles out...allowing me to continue blasting.

Hmm... whats next.  Oh yes... sealing the 'virgin' steel with Phix and epoxy primer.  Then likely onto the subframe connectors and front end.... then inside to fix a few spots... then new rear fenders.... the list doesn't get shorter....