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I've got a blasting booth at work I use. I just got done with with an 1835E resto for a customer. It looks great but the gloss black paint is soooooooooo hard to get perfect. Every little thing shows. I'm much more critical of it than the customer will be but no matter what, it has it's imperfections. I'd wet sand n buff out but the rivet detail will get screwed up

Matt Makens posted:

I've got a blasting booth at work I use. I just got done with with an 1835E resto for a customer. It looks great but the gloss black paint is soooooooooo hard to get perfect. Every little thing shows. I'm much more critical of it than the customer will be but no matter what, it has it's imperfections. I'd wet sand n buff out but the rivet detail will get screwed up

Years ago I had access to a glass bead blaster where I worked.
One of the trains was a 2025 and it came out great.
They also had a decreasing machine which prepped it for painting.
Never tried it on prewar tin stuff.
Matt just enjoy the machine you have a work as I do not have that luxury now and resort to paint stripping and manual prep.

Would love to invest in a system but the cost would be kind of steep for a large compressor, and the exhaust system. The large blast cabinet would be the lowest cost parts.
Do not know if it would be profitable, but who knows, maybe when I retire.

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