Blast Your Car Parts Clean

It’s often a good idea to clean all the rust and old paint off an auto part before you paint it. In the old days, one would use a “sand blaster” to expose the raw base material under all the junk covering it. Today a similar technique is used but it referred to as “media blasting.” According to our friends at Lee Chrysler of Wilson, NC, a Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ram dealer, this is because sand isn’t used much anymore due to the health risks of inhaling silica particles.

What you can clean via media blasting

Media blasting is especially good for cleaning the rust off of metal parts and has been used for decades to do just that. Today you can even clean up plastic, wood and other materials with a media blaster. As you probably imagine, a media blaster is a handyman’s dream.

How they work

Consumer media blasters use pressurized air to shoot tiny pieces of material (media) out of a nozzle to strip off the surface covering off a part. It’s sort of like pressure washing, only at lower pressures and it doesn’t use water, it uses air. The most commonly used media include glass beads, plastic beads, ground-up walnut shells, and aluminum oxide. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com