40LB Soda Blasters

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Lionel

Good question, my experience with dry soda blaster, an Eastwood unit, is that they are not for heavy blasting in the first place, they do not remove heavy rust grease or crud nor does it remove heavy layered military paint.

What is good for is removing automotive paint and paint from light gauge sheet metal without warping. They are not supposed to damage glass, but don't believe it depending on presure and purity of the soda you can frost glass.

They are good at cleaning mechanical parts, but would suggest testing on junk part first. For example I want to try cleaning varnish off pistons but you can bet going to try it on a number of junk pistons before I try it on any that I want to reuse.

Soda is really good for stripping paint off things like air cleaners, valve covers, side panels without roughing the surface of the metal.

One trick I've learned is storing the soda in 2 1/2 gallon gas cans, new of couse, when buy 40lb bag first thing is to pour into two the plastic jugs. They seal to keep out the moisture, they are easier to handle and pour into the blaster. I've stored jugs for as long as year with no clumping.

Cheers Phil