The Rebuild

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by chopper

Hi there Robert, have been toying with the idea of buying one of those type pressure blasters for a while now to do jeep and blitz parts, so thought I may ask a few questions. Do you only use sand or have you tried garnet, what size compressor you have and does it keep up, how long do you get out of a pot of media and roughly how long does it take to do a rim and do the nozzles wear quick?
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Alternative to buying a sandblaster if you only need to do truck rims- one of my friends who has a large sandblaster put me on to this one. Check with large commercial truck tire shop many of them have an automated blasting machine that has a rotary table and automated head they drop the rim in on the table, close cabinet, the hit the power timer and walk away. Come back later open the cabinet and take out the clean rim.

One big point though know mater how you sandblast the rims, protect the threads, I cut up some old heater hose and pushed them on too each of the rim bolts to protect the thread. I use the same bits of hose to protect the threads when painting the rims as well.

There has been a lengthy thread on what size air compressor is best.

Cheers Phil