What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?
I gave my old 1922 Dodge Bros. touring car a half-vast cosmetic restoration in the 1980s. It's a good runner and I like to drive it around some, so I kept putting off doing a full resto, but last year I decided it was looking a bit long in the tooth, so I am doing a frame-off restoration. I have it completely disassembled, and today I got started cleaning the grease off of and sandblasting the frame. My sandblasting rig consists of 2 Campbell-Hausfeld 5-hp. cast iron compressors plumbed in parallel, with one-way valves in the output of each compressor, feeding a 75-gallon tank. This allows me to blast for a good 5 minutes before waiting for the compressor to re-charge the tank, at which point I'm ready to take a break anyway, so it's not too bad. When I get the frame all sandblasted, I'm going to paint it with single-stage industrial semi-gloss black catalyzed urethane over epoxy primer.
I gave my old 1922 Dodge Bros. touring car a half-vast cosmetic restoration in the 1980s. It's a good runner and I like to drive it around some, so I kept putting off doing a full resto, but last year I decided it was looking a bit long in the tooth, so I am doing a frame-off restoration. I have it completely disassembled, and today I got started cleaning the grease off of and sandblasting the frame. My sandblasting rig consists of 2 Campbell-Hausfeld 5-hp. cast iron compressors plumbed in parallel, with one-way valves in the output of each compressor, feeding a 75-gallon tank. This allows me to blast for a good 5 minutes before waiting for the compressor to re-charge the tank, at which point I'm ready to take a break anyway, so it's not too bad. When I get the frame all sandblasted, I'm going to paint it with single-stage industrial semi-gloss black catalyzed urethane over epoxy primer.
