Baking Soda Blasting

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Carel
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Baking Soda Blasting

Postby Carel » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:30 am

Doing a lot of baking soda blasting with DIY projects. While doing some bakkie liner spray work yesterday I started to wonder if a Bakkie Liner/ Under carriage spray gun will not work better for soda blasting as the method as discussed previously on the forum. The bakkie liner spray gun has a large throat and the bottle that screw to the gun makes it easy to move around and give the baking soda shake regulary.

I have an expensive underliner spray gun, maybe buy a cheapie spray gun and try it
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Re: Baking Soda Blasting

Postby Duck Rogers » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:45 pm

Suction feed and gravity feed also works but not as effective as a pressurized pressure pot. Too many turns, kinks and restrictions in the flowline. I know....I've tried it.
The best results are via a pressure pot and a proper tungsten carbide nozzle of the correct size.
I'd be interested in your results with the bakkie liner spraygun but I think you're gonna be disappointed......unless of course you're just using it at home for small DIY jobs where time and efficiency doesn't matter
Airspeed, altitude, or brains....you always need at least two
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Re: Baking Soda Blasting

Postby Carel » Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:03 pm

Has bought a made in china under body spraygun today and will try it over the weekend. Only use it for stripping grime and grease from metal and on a lesser scale to strip paint - very small areas (it works and is neater than sanding with paper) . Only DIY (re-building Land Cruisers, restoring old stuff, etc.)

A friend that has a spray painting thinks it will work if one can get the throat and nozzle sizes right, but again only for small jobs

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