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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:28 pm 
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Knocked up a few of these today, one for home, couple for work etc..:
http://www.aircooledtech.com/tools-on-t ... a_blaster/

Used it on a 3 barrel Bendix from an R2800, this was all black before, as seen on the top right side.

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I also did a set of 28mm Smoothbores from an old '78 Kawasaki KZ1000 & they came up looking like the Solex carb in the link.
My backyard now looks like there was a mini blizzard & I consider the $10 on materials & soda well spent.:)
I used a box of soda the same size as the one in the link as thats the biggest they had at Fart & Smile, er sorry, I meant Smart & Final. Will be checking out how big of a box they have at Costco on the next trip there.

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The original black paint on the outside of the carb body etc was removed with plastic media a few weeks ago. This carb is destined to become part of a coffee table :)

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thats pretty cool lil set up ... will have to try this out on my 65 mustang parts. thansk for the heads up on this.

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Might want to use caution with soda blasting:

http://spi.forumup.org/viewtopic.php?t=156&mforum=spi


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bdk wrote:
Might want to use caution with soda blasting:

http://spi.forumup.org/viewtopic.php?t=156&mforum=spi


It's only a problem for people with an aversion to warm soapy water ;)

....& SPI doesn't exactly have a sterling reputation in the car refinish business....

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Water your lawn pretty heavily and the soda will soak in and sweeten out some of the the alkalinity of the soil, just might improve the back lawn a bit!

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The Inspector wrote:
Water your lawn pretty heavily and the soda will soak in and sweeten out some of the the alkalinity of the soil, just might improve the back lawn a bit!


I'm in the Mojave desert.. I have dust, with patches of dirt. :wink:

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