Sandblasting? large items

[1940_dodge]

What do you all do for large items that need to be sandblasted? I have running boards and large panels on a 1940 dodge that are caked in surface/borderline damaging rust. Face masks always fog up on me and none of these parts would fit in a 32"x18" cabinet.

So for large volume parts, how do you all remove the rust?

 

[1940_dodge]

Sorry for the crappy picture, don't know how to rotate it as an attachment.

 

[rsanter]

Sandblast outside.
Lay out a blue tarp in the driveway.
Blast with basic sand.
Pick up sand with blue tarp and filter through a window screen and reuse as needed.

When done you can save what sand you can or want for next time and sweep the rest into the flower beds

Bob

 

[_gear2]

for one off large pieces, ive always made a 'very rough' custom blasting cabinet using scrap wood, cardboard, a desk lamp, whatever tape I have on hand and the glass from old paintings that you pick up in the charity shops for like $8..... it works and costs next to nothing. (or if your really being a tight *** use the clear plastic from food containers for the window)

roughly the same idea as this

http://www.respectthepanda.com/2011/12/wheel-blaster-2000.html

but just scale it up to your needs

 

[PMD1966]

My neighbor was restoring an old car. He rented an industrial, diesel powered air compressor and sand blasting outfit. Worked good on heavy parts, not for sheet metal.

 

[WanderingSol07]

When I was a kid (< 14) I did blasting for my dad at his auto body shop. I got the job because I was small and could fit into tight spots wearing all the gear. We used a gas engine Joy air compressor and a sandblaster that could hold half of a 55 gallon drum of sand. I was blasting heavy gauge metal, tow truck bodies, flat bed semi trailers, and the like. Did it outside away from everything and just let the sand lay where it fell. We would buy sand by the 3/4 ton heaping pickup load. Being a half mile from the south end of lake Michigan made for cheap sand.

 

[softailgarage]

Borrowed Don Long's storage container he turned into a sandblast room.

 

[1940_dodge]

What mask did you use for blasting outside?

 

[Ilikeike]

The place that does my powder coating has a 40' blast house, maybe check your local guys, usually doesn't cost much.