stripping a patina Duster hood

mad dog said

Esp47, i didnt have the whole hood blasted because i was fearful of warping the metal, i only had the backside heavy hood bracing blasted, i still had to deal with the pits everywhere, Duster hoods are getting harder to find so i guess the effort will be worth it in the end.
finishing my coffee and then back to sanding and then seal it up with some SPI epoxy...

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Makes sense.

In the future if you have the room and don't mind getting dirty, you can always fill up a bucket with this media

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/black-diamond-medium-blasting-abrasives?cm_vc=-10005

and use a blast cabinet gun hooked up to your compressor and get all the rust pits out that way. Use your safety equipment of course....but this type of media has very low silica so it's one of the safer types to use.

I would not recommend trying to blast anything large with this method because it would be like trying to paint a hood with a fine tip sharpie. But it gets the rust pits out without worrying about warpage and it gets the nooks and crannies that you can't get with sandpaper.