Soda blasting?

motorpsycho

motorpsycho

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Anyone here have details on soda blasting?
Specifically, can you soda blast an assembled engine without worrying about media intrusion into the engine?
 
Depends on if you use coke or pepsi....
I have no idea what you are referring to though. Shake the can, use pepsi, coke is corrosive I believe, that is why you can use it on battery terminals...
 
It is an abrasive. There is no way I would ever do that to an assembled engine that I was not going to rebuild. No matter how much you seal it off it always seems to get inside. But that is my opinion.
 
someone that comes into my shop put up a card the blast with dry ice crystalls
ill post info from their card monday
 
derbydad276 said:
someone that comes into my shop put up a card the blast with dry ice crystalls
ill post info from their card monday
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that is the only one I would remotely think about using on an assembled engine, how would think for a while, as you are still removing paint/rust from the motor, which may get inside
 
Friend of mine bought a media blaster to strip down a bumper he picked up for his truck and that shit is nasty. It gets EVERYWHERE.
 
we have a soda blaster at my work and its good for something but sucks for other things... but we also use a minimaly abrasive media (mainly to remove the coating on rotors) but it not harsh enough to remove the silver painted style coating to give you a idea how not abrasive it is
 
Soda blasting will still get everywhere. The benefit of soda blasting is that it is way less abrasive than other types of media. Example: You have a fiberglass hood you need sandblasted to get the paint off. You use soda blasting instead of glass bead, or other media because it wont hurt the fiberglass. It usually costs double of what normal media blasting costs because it takes way longer due to the less aggressive nature of the material.
 
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