Soda Blasting Gun - Not Working Like I Thought.....

[RTR]

I have one of those soda blaster guns from Harbor Frieght, and tried it once on some parts. If I remember correctly, it didn't really do a great job, and made a HUGE mess of dust and soda everywhere. It seemed like it was just "blowing" soda everywhere without any power to clean anything. I'm using an 80 gallon heavy duty oil drive compressor that fills up to around 175 psi and shuts off.
 

[RTR]

I went out and tried it again (2nd time to use) today, and it Just blew soda everywhere with out really cleaning anything. I blasted a Cub Hydraulic Pump and it basically just "blew the dust off it" . It still has paint, dirt and grease still on it. I flaked off the clump of dirt with my finger and the blaster wouldn't even do it. WHAT GIVES!? I would think that it would do better than that! Went through a small box of soda in about 60 seconds with no results.
 

[Ivan in Mich]

I have found that mine will not take painr or grease off. It works great on aluminum or tarnished metal. I have the HF hand held sand blast gun. I get a lot of dust with mine also. I am wondering if there isn"t a different grade of soda that can be used. I have seen them blasting the crude off the bottoms of boats after taking them out of the water and they worked great. I used mine on my Ferg. carb and it worked good.
 

[MisterT]

Soda blasting is intended for use on delicate sheetmetal parts because it is more gentle and has less tendency to warp the sheet-metal. If you need to remove paint and rust from more substantial parts, you need a more aggresive blasting media such as glass beads or black slag.

Even the more aggresive medias will NOT remove caked on, hardened grease or oil. That stuff needs to be scraped off by hand.
 

[RTR]

[dr sportster]

Go to the website for American Soda Blasting and read up. There can be no moisture to soda blast or it will not work. It also says many people have been sold sand blasters as soda blasters [which also will not work] If you have no moisture and the right psi and cfm it should work if you do indeed have a soda blaster.
 

[36F30]

[huntingreen2day]

I have used regular baking soda (Arm and Hammer)in my regular sand blaster to remove paint off a car. I did not do the whole thing but it worked well around the chrome parts.