Soda Blasters

[gigidon]

Has anyone used soda blasters to remove paint from an old car? Can you make recommendations? Soda seems to be gentler than other media.

[rsanter]

soda blasting is great but it is slow as heck if you have many layers of paint or a bunch of bondo.
I recomend that you use stripper on the car and perhaps even run a grinder ofver certain areas with 36 grit before hitting it with the soda

bob

[ron in sc]

Has anyone used soda blasters to remove paint from an old car?

Soda blasting is great but the equipment costs a fortune.

You probably need over 200 CFM.

[goodfellow]

Well, I have seen quite a few posts lately on various boards that suggested soda blasting was a contributor to poor primer/paint adhesion and eventual cracking. I haven't seen any credible scientific evidence, but rather the opinions of many body/paint technicians.

Anyone have a clue wether soda blasting truely has a negative effect on paint job quality?