"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
BDC Motorsports - Performance Rx-7 13B Rebuilds, EFI tuning, etc.
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