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:
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