One
of the most bold and successful methods of stripping your car off the
old paint is through Soda Blasting. Soda Blasting is a process that
uses sodium bicarbonate or baking soda applied to a surface using
compressed air.
Techniques
earlier used for removing paint or unsightly material from a
contaminated surface was to scrape, chip, sand it, use harsh
chemicals or sand blast it. These methods resulted in too much of
work and not a fine job. Now Soda Blasting has taken place of these
methods. Though soda blasting is similar to sand blasting, there is
no harm done to the substrate or environment during or after use.
Soda
Blasting is a process that can strip almost any surface in an
efficient and safe manner. Soda Blasting can easily remove carbon,
grease, oils, gasket material, surface corrosion, paint and coatings
from a variety of alloys, plastics and composites without substrate
damage or distortion. Soda Blasting leaves hard anodized coatings
intact.
Soda
Blasting is the latest, greenest technology to safely strip paint
and/or clean nearly any surface. The soda blasting machines use
compressed air to deliver baking soda onto the surface to be cleaned.
Similar in concept to sand blasting, soda blasting is much kinder and
gentler to the underlying surface and the environment. The process is
gentle enough to remove the coating without harming the substrate.
Virtually any coating can be removed from most any surface. Soda
Blasting Media is FDA approved, non-toxic, and contains no free
silica; it is non-sparking, non-flammable, non-hazardous, and
environmentally safe.
A
Soda Blaster is a self contained system that includes a blast
generator, high pressure compressed air, moisture decontamination
system, blast hose, and a blast nozzle. The blast nozzle in Soda
Blasting applications is not a typical wear part, as a result nozzles
can be ceramic or metal, such as tungsten carbide.
The
blasting material consists of formulated baking soda (chemical name
being sodium bicarbonate) Blasting soda is an extremely fragile
material that has micro-fragmentation on impact, literally exploding
away surface materials without damage to the substrate.
Eastwood's Heavy
Duty Portable Soda Pressure Blaster can remove coatings of
paint without etching or warping the metal. This blaster is ideal for
stripping fiberglass, steel and aluminum. It can strip an entire car
in about 8-12 hours with 8-12 50 lb. boxes of soda.
Master
Blaster from Eastwood is a twin blaster that allows you to switch
between soda and abrasive in seconds or mix at an infinite ratio
between the two medias. There is an exclusive mixing valve that
allows on the fly mixing of a selection between two abrasives. This
reduces the blasting time by half. Soda media can remove coatings on
delicate substrates such as fiberglass, chrome, stainless, etc. By
switching to abrasives rust, heavy scaling or multiple coatings can
be blasted.