Jacksonville Florida, Car Truck Automotive Sandblasting Restoration sandblastingmobile.com
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Sandblasting 1955 Chevy Pickup Truck in Jacksonville Florida with Traditional Dry Blasting. We use a faster more economical sand on the parts not susceptible to warping, and a gentler less abrasive sand on the more fragile parts that are prone to warping.
That's why you'll see 2 pallets of sand on my blast trailer. One is more aggressive and faster therefore its less expensive, and the other pallet of abrasive sand is less aggressive and more gentle plus its slower, therefore its more expensive.
But hey, you have to protect the vehicles fragile parts from warping. Or you will be very miserable. Have you ever seen waves in a hood and roof? It makes car owners cry.
This is NOT Dustless blasting. I do dustless blasting also and its the same price. There is no cost difference between traditional dry blasting and wet dustless blasting.
But there is a huge difference in the clean up of the intricate parts in a automobile. Specifically in the holes, nooks, corners and cranny's. Wet Dustless blasting packs those holes with wet sand, MUD.
Then the mud drys in and wont come out. Ever hear a automobile rattle as dry chunks roll around in some unknown pocket somewhere? I bet you'd love that.
Dry traditional blasting allows us to use our air hose and blow ALL the loose dry sand out of the entire vehicle so you have no miserable clean up, and its ready for painting.
People that don't know any better, people that merely repeat what they have heard, will say warping metal is from the heat generated from sandblasting. That is so untrue. I'm predominantly a welding & fabrication shop. I'm a metal and heat master/expert you could say. after-hours-we...
If a piece of metal is 80 F degrees in the ambient air, when I blast it the temperature will elevate to 120 F. That is not enough heat to warp metal. Your car hood can hit 150 degrees F from just being in the hot sun. Does that warp your car? Actually by raising the temperature, by annealing, I can remove warping. But that has nothing to do with blasting.
What warps metal from blasting is the stretching of the metal like you spread pizza dough on a table. You work it, flatten it and it spreads and will wave/warp as it get wider. Let me hit your hood with 5 million pieces of sand too large, too heavy, and I'm working, flattening, and causing your hood to spread out and it will warp/wave up.
Now instead let me hit your hood with 35 million tiny small light grains of sand. The smaller it is the less energy it carry's and the less impact it has. The less impact the less the flattening stretching effect you'll get. The less flattening you get, no waves, no warping.
Although I do do dustless blasting, I am so tired of the Dustless brand being willing to lie to you and their customers just so they can sell machines that shoot wet/MUD sand that in some situations, is nearly impossible to clean out of automobiles.
Actually I'm just sick of people who are willing to lie so they can trick you out of your money, because they are too dumb to go earn it for real. Those are the people I'm prejudiced of. Unfortunately I cant identify them by looking at them.
Want to know more of the differences between wet dustless blasting and dry traditional blasting? after-hours-we...
Here is a forum of restoration professionals where dozens of them have been sadly exposed to warping problems from people using dustless blasters who don't know what they are doing .www.spiuserforu...
We will travel 250 miles in any direction from Jacksonville Florida to come do your blasting project. And I wont lie to you to get your money.
I hoped you liked this video. Have a great day. Thumbs up to you my viewer and my beloved customers.
What model blaster are you guys using? Phenomenal work.
The blast pot is Titan, the sandmetering valve is Pirate, the air valve is Clemco, and the blast nozzle is a Saber Nozzle by Spunge Jet and the air compressor is Airman with a Isuzu motor. . And the trailer is homemade, I built it.
So I learned something to day of sand blasting and the two types of sand. Thank you for your tutorial. This was very refreshing to see.
Welcome.
you guys did a great job on this truck keep up the great work. I want to start my independence business like this in California.
Probably the best money spent on the project!
The customer thought so.
What are the two grits of sand that you are using,and what type of sand..I never knew that finer sand was the trick..always thought it was heat causing the warpage..great video
The fine sand is 45/60 grit and the coarser sand is 30/65. With the fine sand on warpage prone areas, shoot it at an angle, 45 degrees or less. Do not shoot it straight on as you want to produce a ricochet effect and not a direct stab.
I just read the post on spi site..I recommend any one interested in blasting...I learned on my own..been luck enough to get away with blasting doors and roofs without warping by increasing distance and lowering pressure and lots of luck...but I did warp up a few hoods from blasting inside, warped one with a vac blaster but used aluminum oxide... everything you stated makes sense to me..like the missing link LoL ..again thanks for sharing your knowledge
Hi guys fellow blaster from UK what size nozzle and compressor are you using? Looks real productive , TIA
Hi. Nice to meet you. On this job, I'm running 185 CFM with a #7 nozzle, 7/16th diameter hole. In my blasting brick video, I'm running 375 CFM with this same #7 nozzle. But with the 375 I get a lot higher PSI that's really aggressive and fast.
@@weldersandblasterHave tried blasting vehicles with Glass Beads or Black Beauty?
Porfavor me podrías decir donde comprar la boquilla que usas son bastante buenas y me gustaría tener una igual a la tuya
Where can you buy the sandblasting nozzle you work with?
Sponge Blast sells my Saber nozzle.
Where can you buy the sandblasting nozzle you work with?
It's called a SABER NOZZLE, and it's sold by SPONGE JET.
@Welder Sandblaster Do you travel to sandblasting I need my 1970 impala 4 door bubble done inside and out.
How much would it be to do this to a car?
I have a mitsubishi montero that looks rusty underneath and i want to know if this is a good idea...
To blast the outside of a car is $1,000 if you bring it to me, and $1,500 if I come to you.
To lift a car up in the air and blast the bottom side is another $1,000 by itself.
Great video! I got a lot of good information from you on the video and in the comments. I’ll definitely use this in the future.
Good luck.
I'm in Louisiana needing this done
Genial!!!!
You said you used two different abrasives of sand, what were they...
The courser is 35-65 and the finer is 45-60. If I was taking thick paint off of staircases that can't warp, I would use 20-30 grit. If I was taking off stain and varnish off of a log cabin, I would use 80-100 grit.
What grit sand?
Hello, please reply…
Reply to what?
What psi are you running sir?
On the curved areas, 90 psi. On the flat areas, 60 psi. 😇 On heavy duty, heavy equipment, 135 psi. I am not on cruise control, I am driving and in control of all my results.
excellent video, really helpful, thank you
Welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
How do you price a job? By the bag of media?
Material cost and time to do it, plus headache value.
How do you calculate the amount of sands for your jobs?
Experience and practice. On large flat surfaces like walls or sidewalks, we can calculate it with math and be 80-90% accurate.
@@weldersandblaster I have an 18,656 sqft sidewalk job in a plaza charging 2.50 per foot, hope make s decent profit on my first job
@@damiansgaragebuilds7663 I wish you luck. Where do you live? Are you stripping off paint? Profit is not determined only by how much you charge. Your machine's power and speed has tons to do with it. 90% of all sandblasters out there are only 25% as fast as mine. What I do in one hour takes them 4 hours. So they are paying 3 times more fuel and 3 times more abrasive cost than me.
The most common mistakes newbies make is small ID air hoses and pipes, and small ID blast hose. They cheap out on hose costs and choke their air supply which restricts their performance, which drives up their operating costs.
th-cam.com/video/evzq3m2qvPU/w-d-xo.html According to this video, you are unfortunately in this category. I started this way also. But then I took my small profits and invested 1,000's into larger hoses, larger pipes, and a special; high performance nozzle which I use on 99% of my blast jobs.
After my air hose upgrades, I spent $800 on a special nozzle. I tested before and after. Just the nozzle alone increased my performance by 25%. The savings in 2 months worth of abrasive costs, paid for the nozzle. That was 5 years ago, and I'm still using the high performance nozzle. Imagine the performance increased for 5 years and the savings.
My Sullair 375 used $47 an hour in fuel costs. My Atlas Copco 375 costs $17 per hour to operate. Their performance on both of them was equal. This video shows my old Airman 185. But this video th-cam.com/video/fKVxWBiH7R8/w-d-xo.html shows my Sullair 375 on the trailer.
When diesel skyrocketed to $5.89 a gallon, I began measuring fuel consumption per hour. Then I towed my backup Atlas Copco 375 to the job also and compared it to the Sullair on my trailer. After a week's worth of testing running both of them, I figured out their hourly fuel costs. I was amazed to learn the huge fuel consumption differences between them. But the performance is the same.
Then I spent 2 days taking the sullair 375 off my trailer, and mounting the Atlas Copco 375 on the trailer.
Here is some interesting pictures of the compressors being swapped. photos.app.goo.gl/2tZy2Af1pG93dqsL9
Where do you live? Maybe we can meet someday. Good luck in your new business. It's a tough climb getting to the top of high performance, low operating costs, and high profit margins.
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Roughly how much would it cost to rent something like that and do it yourself versus hiring someone else to come and do it?
When I rent it out, which is very rare because I am so picky who is allowed to rent it, I charge $400 a day, you pay fuel and buy your own abrasive.
@@weldersandblaster did you make it yourself or where could I purchase it for my business?
@@mariotinoco5603 I custom built it all. I might sell it.
Sand blasting can warp the metal , what about walnut shells or bakeing soda ??
It's not sandblasting that warps metal. It's stupidity and ignorance that warps metal. Walnut and soda will remove paint, but won't remove rust. And they won't make a profile. Do you know what a profile is?
@@weldersandblaster you sound kinda snotty
@@Oldcarnut63 Sorry. I get a bit defensive when people assume all blasting warps metal. That is not the case. There is a right technique and wrong technique. And when someone warps metal, do they say, it warped because I don't know what I'm doing? Or do they blame the blasting process and hold themselves harmless? Do guns kill? Are guns dangerous? Or it operator blame? Maybe I am a bit snotty. Sorry.
@@weldersandblaster ok no hard feelings.
Do you have any trouble buying sand?
In some states you can not buy sand. But here in Florida its plentiful.
@@weldersandblaster That's why I asked. We have plenty of sand in SC, just hard to buy blasting sand.
Wats the amout $$ for job like that blue truck
$1,000. Some other guys that do wet dustless blasting bid $700 on that truck. But the owner was smart enough to not go with them. His logic was if they were willing to pack wet mud into all the nooks, crannies and corners, and leave it there, then they didn't care about his well-being so he didn't want them or their mud blasting. Not all, but many paint manufactures actually say in their data sheets, to not paint over top of hold tight 101. They want nothing between their paint and raw perfect steel. Their warranties are based on their paint is adhering straight to the steel and NOT atop of someone else's coating. I do dustless wet blasting, but only on painted concrete or brick.
@@weldersandblaster 1000 is just for the labor and use of equipment, correct? Did you buy the material and charge him after, or did you estimate the amount of material and get that money up from?
@@Tp-wf5jb 1000 included abrasive media also.
Missed a spot 😊
Of you don't mind me asking why did the owner and up paying ?
To keep the video short we didn't show all the blasting we did. We blasted everything but the Chassis. It cost him one thousand.
You did or did not do the frame? If not how much more would that be?
No, we were not hired to blast the frame. He did not use the old frame. He had a new frame built for that truck that contained modern steering and suspension to make the ride more luxurious. If we blasted the frame, that would have raised the cost another $400.
how do you keep from warping thin panels ?
Read the video description.
I would like to trade harbour freight one for that 1
I can trade u
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@@2strokeatvbro630 u gotta machine like that
Yup
@@2strokeatvbro630 and you r thinking what?
Does all the sand just kinda dissipate eventually or ? Also what psi do you guys blast with ?
The sand elevates the ground approximately 10' around the blast zone, to 1/8" higher. Within 2 weeks the grass grows above that 1/8" new elevation and the sand becomes completely hidden and buried within the grass to never be seen again.
Our blast pressure is variable from 125 psi, to 60 psi depending on the aggressiveness level we choose.
@@weldersandblaster thanks alot I'm getting ready to do some area blasting on my own project car this weekend and the pressure and how to not trash my yard completely have been my 2 main concerns
@@Thomas-ig1pu For a car i run 70 psi pressure. Bulldozers get 125 psi. Also, if in a few areas you get tall sand build up, use your air hose to disperse it down. I always blow my tall piles down.
Thanks for all the help I'll start with 70 psi and see how it goes from there.
how much
How much what?
whats the big red tank set up for... Just to hold air or do it eliminate your cooler?
It's my dirt cheap homemade water separator that works as good as any expensive factory built ones.
How did u make it? No air cooler? What size compressor do u use? Does is act as a air holding tank as well
@@genemaddalena8870 The radiator/air cooler is 1.5" square tube that's 220 feet long mounted under the trailer. It drops my air temp from 150 F coming out of the compressor, to 130 going into the red tank/water separator. No fan required. The temperature drop causes condensation and takes humidity out of my air and turns it into liquid water. The red tank is not about air reserve, it's about allowing the condensation/liquid water to fall out of my air stream so only dry air makes it to my pot.
This one mounted on the trailer is my small compressor at 185 cfm 100 psi. When I want more aggressive I hook up my big compressor 375 cfm 125 psi to the trailer. 375 cfm takes a real man to hold that hose for hours. I would not blast an auto with 375 cfm, but its great for large barges or sidewalks.
O wow that’s awesome how u have that set up.. would u mind if i called u one of these days.. im a start up guy seeking some tricks of the trade.. lost my job due to covid and trying to start something in the spring cause im up in ip state NY
@@genemaddalena8870 You can call in the evenings. I'm busy during most days.
howmany sand you use to all this job?
The rig in this video used about 18-23 bags of sand. 50 lbs each. My new rig can do it with about 6-9 bags. Since I'm a welding shop predominantly, and I build my own rigs, I just keep making them better and better.
Why is it grey and not bare meta? What am I missing?
Bare naked metal is silver'ish color. If it's polished super smooth, it shines like chrome because it reflects light very easy. When its blasted, it looses its smoothness and becomes bumpy with peaks and valleys from the millions of impacts of the abrasive. Then it does not reflect light at all, and then it looks gray to the human eye. If you took the time to resmooth it and repolish it, then it could shine again like a silver mirror.
Smooth, shiny metal is very poor at holding paint. Blasted rough metal holds paint super well.