Sand blasting and protection

[solarman216]

While away noticed a little bit of rust near the front body mounts, knowing this is an issue with Patrols, decided that as we are back early as did not get to Wales, that now is the time to sort it, so here we go winch bumper off and front grill, and was pleasantly surprised to find it is only on the wheel side of the job, this is what I found on both sides

 

[solarman216]

Sorry it is 90 deg out, it happens with pics taken on my phone, this is the front, very clean tomorrow it will be bright metal then after repair fully under sealed, Rick

 

[solarman216]

I will take future pics on my Nikon, Rick

 

[solarman216]

Sand blasting today, this is the front ready for welding and underseal,only lightly blasted the painted parts that were sound, back to bare metal all rusty areas

 

[solarman216]

OS with the hole

 

[solarman216]

This is more serious, a plate sits on top and it fills with mud that stays wet, the amount of expanded rust I chipped out was alarming, so gonna be beefing that up tomorrow

 

[solarman216]

NS not so bad

 

[solarman216]

Inside of OS wing, pretty clean considering

 

[solarman216]

Outside, got a few dents to hammer out, welding tomorrow, Rick

 

[Banshee]

Good to see you back on it Rick :thumb2

 

[Flying Torquewrench]

Seems to be in a good condition Rick. :thumb2

 

[solarman216]

Seems to be in a good condition Rick. :thumb2

Yes it is, the worst were the sills, but totally sorted them with 100mm x 6mm plate, Rick

 

[solarman216]

Front all sorted and blacked up, sorry fort he poor quality pics but I was knackered by this time

 

[solarman216]

Engine side of NS wing

 

[solarman216]

Fixed OS body mount but not done the spring mount as need the motor on the road asap plus could not find some readily available material to use, so blacked it up for now

 

[solarman216]

Fixed NS body mount

 

[solarman216]

OS wing blacked up, had a quick go at bashing out the dents, now a passable wing

 

[solarman216]

Went back tonight to slap some paint on the outside of the wing as sand blasted steel in damp evenings flash rusts so quickly, so not looking like a bad wing now compared to how it was after arguments wit trees plus some damage to the top front that was there when I bought it

 

[solarman216]

Another view, do not know if I will ever be bothered to fill flat and spray, but will do something with the arch to stiffen it up sometime, Rick

 

[elty001]

Sand blasting makes it so much easier to get all the paint and crap out of the way for welding :thumb2
What blasting equipment are you using?
I've got a little suction fed gun that just about runs ok on my 50 ltr compressor.
Got use of a hodge clemco hopper type unit but takes some serious cfm to run that.