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Can you sandblast Turbo Wheels without ruining them? 200 1990

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posted by  Bishop on  Thu Feb 20 14:19 CST 2003
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Do not sandblast aluminum, it's too rough and can strip to much material off the wheel leaving bad pitting.

People do tend to confuse the 2 but there is sand blasting and bead blasting, both have diffrent purposes
Sand blasting is a very rough process, designed for harder metals etc, the medium they use is very rough and can cut through metal if your not real carefull.
Bead blasting uses polly or plastic style glass beads, it's a very gentle process that is designed to remove all forms of surface coatings yet leave the base material untouched.

My father has had a beed blaster for 10-15 years now, one of the things he used it for is stripping old paint and grime off old motorcycle wheel hubs, it strips every last scrap of everything, yet leaves the aloy hubs perfect, with no base material removed, and no bad marks, the end finish is easy to paint or polish.

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Veronica, my 85 760Ti






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