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73 Bronco - wepuckett - 07-18-2014
broncosbybart Wrote:Let him work on the tub as well. That'll keep him busy. The more you have someone else do, the better off you'll be. I'm sure you can have him use whatever paint you want, if you supply or pay for it. Good paint isn't cheap.
I was mostly worried about making sure during the time I got the things primed that got blasted to protect them, kinda figured I would have to have him out a couple times but might be able to do it all at once if I put it off a month or so.
73 Bronco - Crawdad - 07-18-2014
Keep the air compressor you just bought, it will serve its purpose for many other things. Find another deal on another one and run both at same time as long as your electrical panel doesn't trip. When done with sandblasting just sell the worst of the two. Sandblast everything and epoxy primer immediately. $75 is a good price if it includes sand. Wear a respirator bc regular play sand is very bad for ur lungs. Remove everything from your frame including all bolts, lines, oil, grime and make sure he doesn't destroy ur VIN numbers.
73 Bronco - Crawdad - 07-18-2014
If he does the tub focus on the seams or any other area a sanding disc can't get to. You may need a pick to pull out old seam sealant but its necessary if you want to do a good job. Blasting has a hard time removing grime, oil and bondo/ sealant.
73 Bronco - wepuckett - 07-19-2014
Looks like I will be putting the whire wheel back in the drill and playing with that tomorrow while the frame is still on the rotisserie and looking for the vin so I know where it is at before he even comes out.
Then back to drilling out spot welds and grinding things apart so i can remove the good metal from the body that is pretty rusty.
73 Bronco - chuzie - 07-19-2014
I found my VIN last night. Was happy to confirm it matches.
73 Bronco - wepuckett - 07-19-2014
Well it is raining here again today so probably won't mess with it since it is already outside.
73 Bronco - Crawdad - 07-19-2014
I brought the rain with me to NC around 6am. It was a beautiful cool morning!
73 Bronco - wepuckett - 07-19-2014
Crawdad Wrote:I brought the rain with me to NC around 6am. It was a beautiful cool morning!
Well maybe when you head back to SC it will leave with you, it looks like it has passed now just hopping it stays gone tomorrow, about to watch movies tonight.
73 Bronco - wepuckett - 07-24-2014
Ok just got my new compressor new to me at least finished hooked up. Only down fall is it is on the other side of the basement so gotta run air lines along the floor a good chunck of the way till I get something more permanent set up. I was able to take a 25ft air hose I have and run it from compressor and up through floor joist to the beam down the middle of the basement and a little ways. It is also a heck of a lot quieter then my other one. Got the regulater installed so I don't blow out any air tools also. It is a 3.6hp with 11.8cfm @90psi max operating psi 155 charge psi is 125. It looks pretty new so that is good. It is an industrial air 60gal.
Also got some holes drilled in a piece of stock that I have that I will slide into my engine hoist to be able to pic things up off the ground without having to roll under them. Basically fixing my idiot move of setting one of my boddies or tubs directly on the ground.
I will be picking standoffs up when I head back up to TN next friday witch will allow me to set a body on the frame and on rotisserie and spin it while I drill or grind spot welds out to replace the floor pans and other rotted metal.
73 Bronco - chuzie - 07-24-2014
Keep in mind you may want to consider running 3/8 connectors and line to overcome surface resistance at long distances for your blaster or other high cfm applications.