When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
So cleaning up the frame with wire and grinding wheels isn’t the best path. The price for sandblasting was unexpectedly high. I don’t have a large enough compressor to buy a sandblaster and do it my self. Has anybody tried the sand blaster attachment for a power washer?
I watched one video on it. It didn’t really strip the paint that wasn’t already flaking. So I guess I wouldn’t expect it to strip a frame down to bare steel. The thing only costs between twenty to fourty dollars
What’s everyone’s thoughts.
Edit to say: my borrowed gas pressure washer is 2200 psi, and 2.5 gpm.
Several years ago, I had a mobile dry ice blaster company give an estimate to blast my frame. They could have done it all in a few hours, but it was overly expensive to me at the time.
Trying to save a buck, I built my own wet blaster setup and went to work. I added a pressure tank to the suction wand for the sand supply. It all worked well, but was zero fun....
... Scratch that, negative 10,000 fun.
Before priming with paint, I still had to wire brush the metal to get rid of surface rust that formed.
If I'd have do this all over again I wouldn't, I would have gratefully paid anyone else to do it.
~ There will be excessive amounts of sand on this property for the rest of eternity.
I paid 1500 to have the bed and the frame blasted. It was worth every penny. I took the cab, hood, doors, and fenders down to bare metal the old fashioned way and it was hours and hours of miserable work. The blasting guy had the frame done in about half an hour. If you use a competent blasting guy they will use an anticorrosive in the slurry they blast it with which should give you enough time to get it washed clean and then painted before it flash rusts.
I suppose I am trying to save money, but in my mind I’m just moving money from one part of the project to another. I wasn’t planning on rebuilding a 10k mi old motor, but 9:1 pistons sure would be nice.
For the $1,500 I could have a nice air compressor for the rest of my life. I’ve been trying to cut back on tools. At 56, I have a lifetime of tools, with one heir that has no use for any of it. My old heirloom air compressor crapped out a few years ago, and I downsized to a pancake. I thought I could get by!
There is also the hot tank dip process that is available in some areas. The best of these operations returns bare metal coated with some kind of anti-rust or even epoxy primer. They, too, are not cheap.
Rezvani's Latest Post-Apocalytic Monster Is a Ford F-150 Raptor Underneath
Slideshow: Called the Fortress, the 850-horsepower pickup combines Raptor underpinnings with military-inspired features, survival equipment, and a starting price of $285,000.
