Soda Blasting?!

[NeilGTi85 5]

http://www.soda-blast.co.uk/

 

Never seen this before, looks good.

 

Anyone done this before?

 

Cheers

 

Neil

[Mandic 0]

Haven't done it, but would rather use CO2 (dry ice) blasting, very useful for removing stuff, only rust is a bit hard to remove. Sand must be used for that.

 

Cheers

 

Ziga

[gti-si 0]

Isn't Soda CO2?

[Mandic 0]

I believe soda is short for sodium (bi)carbonate NaHCO3 or Na2CO3 respectively, but I guess they use bicarbonate, which is nothing else but baking soda.

 

Cheers

 

Ziga

[mattmk1 0]

I believe soda is short for sodium (bi)carbonate NaHCO3 or Na2CO3 respectively, but I guess they use bicarbonate, which is nothing else but baking soda.

 

Cheers

 

Ziga

 

The buisness next door to us had a hilman imp shell soda blasted. Looked good when done, removed all paint etc but took fecking ages. Softer than sand though so didnt distort the body panels like sandblasting would. And its expensive.

Depends what you want blasting really! Entire cars i think work out too expensive.

 

In fact just looked at their website and the imp on the homepage is the car my neighbours had done, its photod inside their workshop! .

Edited July 22, 2008 by mattmk1

[Redtop 14 2 Cars]

I got my auto test mini done by this way. £500 for the whole car for me. At least a days work. It doesn't lift the rust out of the metal like sandblasting though. You can use it on panels on cars but beware it weakens them especially a large bonnet. You can leave them in bare metal for up to 2 months and it doesn't rust suprisingly. Here's my mini

 

I'd recommend shot/sandblasting underneath engine bay etc if it's rusty at all and then sodablast the panels if you want a full bare metal job. Otherwise get a bodyshop to flatten it back by person/machine. My dad had a bad experience with the spl firm and wouldn't recommend that acid dipping process at all. The damage caused wasn't worth it in the end.