Latest episode of our show about working on bikes. We show to make a
basic soda blasting gun using cheap parts. Great for cleaning up or
stripping back metal bits, such as the aluminium brake caliper bracket
shown in the vid.

http://www.garagenight.tv/diy-soda-b...own-rig-cheap/

All the best,
Waz
http://www.garagenight.tv

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Waz <(E-Mail Removed)>
saying something like:

>Latest episode of our show about working on bikes. We show to make a
>basic soda blasting gun using cheap parts. Great for cleaning up or
>stripping back metal bits, such as the aluminium brake caliper bracket
>shown in the vid.
>
>http://www.garagenight.tv/diy-soda-b...own-rig-cheap/

Hang your baking soda bucket up and take a feed out of the bottom -
blast in an half oil drum and shovel up the caught b.s. to go back in
the bucket (with some filtering, natch). I'd also put a stopcock in the
downfeed pipe.

On Apr 7, 5:48*pm, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:
> Hang your baking soda bucket up and take a feed out of the bottom -
> blast in an half oil drum and shovel up the caught b.s. to go back in
> the bucket (with some filtering, natch). I'd also put a stopcock in the
> downfeed pipe.

Good advice. I was thinking of attaching the feed hose to a large
funnel, then putting the baking soda in a fine sieve in the mouth of
said funnel. Hopefully the soda wouldn't start to flow through until
the suction begins, and then when it did flow it would be quite fine
and mixed with air. A stopcock would help further to control things.

We've got a rudimentary sandblasting cabinet and Trent informs me he's
obtained some sort of gizmo that we can try out to help with flow.

Thanks for the comments,

Waz
http://www.garagenight.tv

Waz wrote:
> Latest episode of our show about working on bikes. We show to make a
> basic soda blasting gun using cheap parts. Great for cleaning up or
> stripping back metal bits, such as the aluminium brake caliper bracket
> shown in the vid.
>
> http://www.garagenight.tv/diy-soda-b...own-rig-cheap/
>
> All the best,
> Waz
> http://www.garagenight.tv
Not exactly new after all and kinda messy when you can purchase a tidy
little kit but thanks for the link
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/onl...ls.aspx?id=187
I have been using walnut shell and soda for 30 odd years with good
results and certainly with the right gear at 8>10cfm paint removal from
body panels is easy and saves hours of work , just remember the right
medium and not sand ( silicoses will kill you) and a cheap polishing kit
for the alloy helps maintain the lustre

On Apr 8, 12:34*am, atec7 7 <""atec77 \"@ hotmail.com"> wrote:
> Not exactly new after all and kinda messy when you can purchase a tidy
> little kit but thanks for the linkhttp://www.supercheapauto.com.au/online-store/tools/air-tools.aspx?id...
> I have been using walnut shell and soda *for 30 odd years with good
> results and certainly with the right gear at 8>10cfm paint removal from
> body panels is easy and saves hours of work , just remember the right
> medium and not sand ( silicoses will kill you) and a cheap polishing kit
> for the alloy helps maintain the lustre

Hmmm, who said it was anything new? And yes, it's rough and ready, but
surely good enough for someone who's doing one-off jobs now and then.

I have heard good things about walnut shell polishing.

May you polish for another 30 years.

Waz
http://www.garagenight.tv

Waz wrote:
> Latest episode of our show about working on bikes. We show to make a
> basic soda blasting gun using cheap parts. Great for cleaning up or
> stripping back metal bits, such as the aluminium brake caliper bracket
> shown in the vid.
>
> http://www.garagenight.tv/diy-soda-b...own-rig-cheap/

Heh, having posted the instructions here about 6 months ago,
I still haven't got round to making one myself to clean up
the carbs I have for my latest project.

Good to see it working, but I'd be interested to know where
you got such a huge tub of soda from, and how much it cost?

--
Antony

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> antonye wrote:
>
> >Good to see it working, but I'd be interested to know where
> >you got such a huge tub of soda from, and how much it cost?
>
> <consults xtal ball>
>
> Hmmm... I sense a Chinese wholesaler and what's this.... why
> it's a sign saying 'Fifteen dollah, rong time, big boy'.

Ah, of course. I did buy a big 1L jar of it from Makro last
time I was there, to apply liberally if I splashed any
sulphuric acid about from anodising (see other garagenight.tv
thread!) but that was the biggest they did.

--
Antony

antonye wrote:

> Good to see it working, but I'd be interested to know where
> you got such a huge tub of soda from, and how much it cost?

This is the cheapest I can find, huge tub but works out to ~£2/Kg
delivered. We could always chip in and UR it around the country ....

--
Pip: B12

Pip wrote:

> antonye wrote:
>
> > Good to see it working, but I'd be interested to know where
> > you got such a huge tub of soda from, and how much it cost?
>
> This is the cheapest I can find, huge tub but works out to ~£2/Kg
> delivered. We could always chip in and UR it around the country ....

Arse!

url:
http://www.mistral.ie/details.php?co...G96ACFYts4wodO
jhOBA

--
Pip: B12

On 8 Apr, 17:49, "Pip" <gingerbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the cheapest I can find, huge tub but works out to ~£2/Kg
> delivered. *We could always chip in and UR it around the country ....
Bet its not as big as this tub:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ECOSTRIP-SODIU...mZ360160287559