'67 after I scraped the undercoating off:
After I sand blasted the area:
With 1st coat of primer applied:
All of the front end of the engine bay [inside and out], has since been blasted and primed.
I used a Craftsman siphon-feed 120# capacity sand blast hopper [similar to this]:
Campbell Hausfeld 9 Gallon Sand Blaster
My compressor is big enough I never had to stop to wait for it to catch back up so I could continue on:
This is the main reason I bought a large compressor, since I blast a
lot more smaller objects --rather than the occaisional large object like a car:
Until fairly recently, objects like drive shafts or rear end housings had to be blasted outside. I made a modification to my [48"] wide cabinet to make it expandable out to 72" with the adaptable 30-gallon drum [by 14½" diameter] add-on:
1960 T-Bird 9-inch rear end housing inside cabinet:
When an object will fit inside the cabinet without the need for the extension, the drum can be removed and the hole capped off with the drum head to keep the blast media from building up in the drum:
Some of the items shown from the '67 that have been through the bead blaster:
