Frame Resto-DONE

[Mark McD]

Started refurbishing my used pop-up frame last night. I surveyed the entire frame and decided it is indeed usable. I used a grinder to get most of it to bare metal. The areas that couldn't be reached with the grinder and wire cups, etc, were going to be media blasted(glass beads). I say was going to be media blasted because after doing a test sample with the blaster, I was completely deflated. I used 25 pounds of beads to clean a small section, it took forever. And of course, it's quite a mess. I use glass beads because it doesn't contain any free silica.And I get the beads for free from a friend


So, after about an hour and a half of grinding, blasting and getting real dirty and thirsty, I decided to call it a night and went out to meet some friends for a few games of darts. As fate would have it , I bumped into a friend who owns a body shop and immediately started to pick his brain about my dilemma. He said to have the entire frame media blasted it would be about $500 minimum. That's out. I could build a new frame for less. The whole purpose of using this frame was because it's free. I didn't want the cost of refurbishing it to exceed $200. Then he told me about a product that he uses- and swears by. This is the stuff:


He says he's used it on at least 3 frame off restos. I'm going to try it. The one gallon bottle costs $27 and makes two gallons. Plus shipping, although they ship the 8oz bottle for free.I'll post results and pics after Ii try it. The other good thing about it is it's non-toxic,biodegradable, non-caustic, etc.Anyone ever heard of it or used it?

here's the url for the website:
http://www.deoxydoesit.com

[Alphacarina]

Glass beads are perfect for areas which only need light cleaning and which you don't want to damage . . . . like a lightly rusted car body where you don't want to have to deal with the pits that sandblasting would cause

For serious rust, I always use sand blasting - It's much faster, cheaper and more effective. It's only a frame and you don't really care how 'pretty' it winds up - You just want it cleaned to base metal so you can prime and paint it

Don

[Mark McD]

Got the frame blastedd, primed and painted, in spite of -10 degrees temp!
FUN!


You know it's cold when the mercury doesn't register