Sure beats the heck out of scraping and wire wheeling!

Monday afternoon My brother-in-law Steve and I headed down to Plainwell, MI to media blast the tunnel and a small pile of little parts. The place we went to is called Consolidated Stripping The guy to talk to is Don. They rent out blast cabinets and a blast room. Their rates are reasonable and the equipment works pretty well. We started out working in the two man blast cabinet. This works by putting the parts in, closing up the cabinet and there are two sets of gloves and two blast nozzles.

 

After we finished with the little parts, we took the tunnel into the blast room where Steve and I suited up and set the tunnel on a couple of barrels. We spent 45 minutes cleaning the tunnel and we were done.

And finally, a pile of clean parts.

The price for all this is pretty reasonable and is based on the number of operators and which booth you use. We managed to work for a full 2 hours between both booths and it cost me $60. This included the equipment and blast media. I thought that was pretty reasonable.

Over the next couple of days, I cleaned and sanded the parts a bit and sprayed them with etch primer. Ready for welding in the pans and then sealing up the seams.