Big Sky Euro

nice, way to do it right Josh!

Alright, so here's a few pictures of the booth finished:



Started blasting today!! Only had time to do a little, but finally got it fired up!

Here's the passenger side rear quarter before:



And After:



You can see that the soda took off the paint and the surface rust, but left the body filler that was present.



Here you can see where I wiped off the layer of dust with my glove. One of the benefits of using soda is that it leaves a layer of dust that protects the bare metal from flash rusting. Granted you have to clean it before painting, but that's nothing new that you shouldn't already have to do in any other case.



There is obvious room for improvement as there are some spots that I missed, and I don't think I was using the media as efficiently as I could have. But I think with practice, I'll get more proficient at it.

So far so good, but I'll definitely have a better feel for the whole process and the machine after I'm done.

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Been awhile since I've posted on this.

Typical to life, things have come up and I haven't been working on it too terribly much. With the wife having a kid recently, and needing to make some space in the shop for my Dad's 50th B-day party, not much has been done.

The tub's currently sitting in my garage, weather permitting though, it'll be going back to the shop this next weekend. The rotisserie worked great for having to transport the tub around.

I've done some blasting on the frame, but that's about it. The aluminum oxide works well for heavy stuff, like the frame and drive train. It's also pretty easy to pick up and re-use.

The soda doesn't last as long as I originally estimated, so I'm going to have to pick some more of that up before I can finish the body.

More to come as I get back into the swing of things.

Looks like a kill room from the show Dexter. Very clean. If you haven't seen the show you should watch it and you would see what I am talking about.

It does look good man.

Glad to see another "Dexter" fan here....

I <3 Dexter. 3 days till new season.

I am still catching up. I am now in the middle of season 3. I hear that season 4 is insane!

Well after almost a full 6 month hiatus, I'm back in the swing of things . Got my booth all back together. Picked up another 100lbs of blasting soda and 50lbs of aluminum oxide, so I should have enough to do the rest of the blasting. I did pretty much all of the under-body and firewall last weekend. Should get a couple hours in on it tonight too.