dolly sprint resto

[stevew]

At last the shotblasters have turned up to start!
These were the only ones that would do it at home for me, I'll post some pics later...Exited!

[stevew]

Blaster was very good

[stevew]

Time to call the welders in...

[stevew]

The company that did it was Steadblast in Stafford, very good very quick and very reasonable.

[Edin Dundee]

That looks great, how long did it take them?
Any points that they wanted sorted when they arrived that you hadn't thought about or prepared?
Was there a huge mess of blasting grit in the area when they had finished?

[stevew]

It only took them half a day to do, far faster than if I'd tried to do it myself, and to be honest, I just removed anything I didn't want blasting, but boy was there a mess!
The sand got everywhere and it took me a couple of hours to sweep it all away, the rain did the rest.
It worked well as it cleaned off all the crud and revealed a few weak areas underneath that I hadn't noticed before, a bit of a pain, but I'd rather know now, than after I'd painted it...

[soe8m]

The sand is in all your boxed area's like sills etc. sticking at what someone did spray in in the past. Holding the moist from now. If i were you i would carfully check and clean and have a look with an endoscope in all the internals before any work is done. Sandblasting seperate panels or doors ok but a whole shell??

Jeroen

[stevew]

I didnt do the whole shell, the body was done by hand, the underside, boot and inderbonnet blasted

[stevew]

...underbonnet, sorry!