"Brian D. Cain" wrote:

I've recently stumbled upon a killer method for cleaning engine housings.  A
friend of mine found a company in the industrial part of town here that does
blasting with baking soda.  I've never heard of it up until about a week
ago.
After speaking to the owner of the company today, it turns out it was a
technique
that was discovered about 20 years ago or so when they were looking for ways
to
clean the Statue of Liberty up.  I took a current customer's engine housings
there to be soda-blasted as a test after seeing a couple of pictures of the
results
from my friend that had some things done.  Apparently this blasting medium
is
abrasive enough to strip paint and clean all sorts of dirt and crud off of
things yet
isn't so abrasive that it pits or dings metal.  After picking the housings
up today,
I was shocked to see that everything on them (bolts, washers, studs,
nitrided
iron plating, undersides, etc.) were so clean that they looked brand-new.
None
of the machined surfaces looked like they'd had anything harmful done to
them
at all.  The rotor housings' water jackets were exceptionally clean.  These
things
look brand new!

Here's the URL for the company:  http://www.sodablasting.com

And, here's a URL to the pictures I took earlier:
http://bdc.cyberosity.com/pictures/SodaBlasting/

I'll attach one.  Let me know what you guys think!

B

Brian D. Cain -/- Grand Prairie, TX -/- bdc196@comcast.net
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