Muscle Car TV wet media blasting

deadonarrival · Jun 12, 2007

I caught an episode of this show over the weekend and they were using a power washer with an attachment to wet media blast a frame. I was wondering if anyone had tried this for the undercarriage and engine compartment. I did a search but did not find anything. On line searches turned up a cost of $75.00 to $100.00 for the attachment for the power washer.

spade33 · Jun 12, 2007

i was just talking about taht today and i am curious about this too

CarFreakGT · Jun 12, 2007

deadonarrival said:
I was wondering if anyone had tried this for the undercarriage and engine compartment. I did a search but did not find anything. On line searches turned up a cost of $75.00 to $100.00 for the attachment for the power washer.

That would be great if it were effective. I'd be curious to know, as well. Also, how much pressure would be needed for it to be effective?

rbohm · Jun 12, 2007

CarFreakGT said:
That would be great if it were effective. I'd be curious to know, as well. Also, how much pressure would be needed for it to be effective?

the amount of pressure depends on what media you are going to use. a more aggressive media can use less pressure and still remain effective. that said a pressure washer has plenty of pressure for most media's.

bnickel · Jun 12, 2007

this would be great for other parts like rearend housings and leaf springs, wheels etc. anything to big to do in small or medium sized blast cabinet or if you don't want to send it out to have it done. it seems like it would also be easier to recycle the media as well, just sweep into a pile and put it in a bucket with some realy small holes drilled in it to let the water drain.

jikelly · Jun 12, 2007

I just love that show!!

mustbereel · Jun 12, 2007

blast

can you point me in the direction of the attachments you found?

deadonarrival said:
I caught an episode of this show over the weekend and they were using a power washer with an attachment to wet media blast a frame. I was wondering if anyone had tried this for the undercarriage and engine compartment. I did a search but did not find anything. On line searches turned up a cost of $75.00 to $100.00 for the attachment for the power washer.

1320stang · Jun 12, 2007

I saw this too, one bad thing would be the instant surface rust you'd get that you'll have to contend with. That being said, I like the idea, but I think they said you couldn't use it on the body, I'm not sure, my DVR cut it off in the middle of that sentence and started recording whatever came on after that, I missed a few seconds. The water should prevent the normal buildup of heat associated with traditional sand blasting.....

68EFIvert · Jun 12, 2007

1320stang said:
I saw this too, one bad thing would be the instant surface rust you'd get that you'll have to contend with. That being said, I like the idea, but I think they said you couldn't use it on the body, I'm not sure, my DVR cut it off in the middle of that sentence and started recording whatever came on after that, I missed a few seconds. The water should prevent the normal buildup of heat associated with traditional sand blasting.....

At the end of the program he said that you couldn't use this technique on body panels. I thought it was interesting as well.

ForceFed70 · Jun 12, 2007

For the record; it's not the heat buildup that warps the sheetmetal, it's the shot-peening effect.

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