What do two unemployed bums do in Ottawa on a Friday? Sandblast at the barn! Bob and I decided to take advantage of the "good" weather on Friday to do some work at the barn. Time was of the essence as we also had a Gracie's call that night.
First order of the day was to remove Bob's truck Lettie, from the barn. It took a few trys to get her rolling and the idle sorted out, but she finally rolled out under her own power.
She was running a tad rich:
Bob then blasted a good number of sheet metal panels from his and some donor cab 11s.
We set up a containment "cathedral" and recovered about five bags worth of media of the ten we used. This recovered quartz will be screened twice and pushed through a larger nozzle. It will save some money and we saved a lot of time by having the containment shelter - we just rolled up the tarps and refilled the bags with the sand that landed on the tarps.
I took advantage of the situation to clean up some rims. The aim was to knock off the big deposits of rust etc... in prep for treatment, priming and painting (next week).
Interestingly, we discovered other stampings on the Dunlop rim - Bob will post photos later (his camera has better resolution than my camera).