Re: Media Blasting versus Sand Blasting

Posted by David Grubbs On 2013/1/28 19:04:11

I just finished having my 51 200 painted. It had three layers of paint on it, so I took it to a local stripping outfit. (see the blog on this project for more details). He used crushed glass - it took off all of the paint and most of the bondo. It would have taken it all off, but my painter wanted to see where the bad spots were. The car had a rusty replacement hood I put on since the original hood was badly dented. The glass took all of the rust off, without any deforming of the metal or damaging the glass. It was also much easier to clean out the car than one that was sandblasted. It cost me $700 to have it done, but it was worth every penny. I have used a friend's sandblaster on small parts and it took me almost as long to do four wheels and a dash that it did the stripper to do the entire car using the crushed glass.