Eastwood's soda blasting conversion kit

[scherp69]

Has anyone tried Eastwood's soda blasting conversion kit: http://www.eastwood.com/soda-blasting-retro-fit-kit.html I priced out a local guy to do some blasting to get my doors and fenders done but he wants $140 an hour. I already have a pressure sand blaster and was thinking if this kits works well, I can do the doors, fenders and the shell myself for only $130. Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance.

[LateNight72]

Just use a plastic or walnut blast media and be done with it. I'll be up front and say that I dislike the use of Baking Soda for anything other than baking or dousing fires with.

[scherp69]

Can I use plastic or walnut in a pressure sand blaster? Or would I have to get a special blaster? Also, would it warp my panels at all?

[tb8125]

I would like to know too

[DEIGuy38]

I stripped the large flat panels by hand with JASCO paint stripper and DA once thet were stripped. I bought a pressurized blaster from harbor freight and did the bottom of the car, fire wall, jambs, front and rear window area and trunk floor. What a long process. I think it would have been worth it to pay some one to do it rather than me spending 2 days doing the work. I went to home depot and used a 30 mesh sand, playground sand was too big it clogged the nozzle. I started with 10 bags of sand. I would not blast a large flat area, I would do it by hand. Much easier to blast the jambs than sand them to bare metal. If you have any questions let me know.

[cobraguy65]

I'm curious about this as well. Anybody try this conversion?