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Non Caving Related => Non-Caving Chat/Info => Topic started by: Tim Watts on Jan 31, 2012, 02:42 AM

Title: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Tim Watts on Jan 31, 2012, 02:42 AM
Can Anyone suggest where i can get a my Sankey Trailer Sand Blasted for Cheap? Don't mind doing it myself if anyones got access to the gear??

I want to respray it the same colour as my landy for using carrying all the gear on long haul caving trips when the landy itself is full of bodies.....

Its similar to this one except that the paint is a lot more flakey on mine.

Ta,

Tim
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Dean Wood on Jan 31, 2012, 02:59 PM
These guys were quite reasonable when I took a couple of spare wheels to get de rusted, they came back as new with a coat of primer on. Was a few years ago now so I've got no idea of prices etc etc http://www.coloradocorrosion.co.uk/index.html
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mike leahy on Jan 31, 2012, 05:15 PM
[quote="TimWatts" post=4445]Can Anyone suggest where i can get a my Sankey Trailer Sand Blasted for Cheap? Don't mind doing it myself if anyones got access to the gear??

I want to respray it the same colour as my landy for using carrying all the gear on long haul caving trips when the landy itself is full of bodies.....

Its similar to this one except that the paint is a lot more flakey on mine.

Ta,

Tim[/quote]

i'll have a word with budgie, he used to know a" man who can" . if you know what i mean
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mick murphy on Feb 01, 2012, 06:06 PM
Hi tim that trailer will be in the region of £300 to £400 to be blasted and a holding primer ,how ever if you have a empty garage you could hire a small sand blast unit and a small compressor a few bags of olivine and i could do it for you as i have my own spray unit and guns and could get the primers and mid coats buck she you would just have to buy the top coat and if you can get any club members who need gates blasting and primed or wheels or any metals then it can work out cheap, i will shop around for you, the above is what i do foe the aircraft carriers, mick
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Paul Boyd on Feb 01, 2012, 07:37 PM
Hi Tim try SES in Greenfield next to the bridge with speed camera....only cost me £30 to
have two plates welded to my log burner + sand blasting..did an excellent job and also do
powder-coating..:) :)
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 01, 2012, 07:41 PM
Nice one mick - i've already got a 3hp compressor and paint spraying gear - but not blasting gear. I'll price up blasting gear and and olivine. Unless i came up with anyone who could get it done somewhere cheap then thats what i was gonna do anyway - i've got a load of heavy plastic sheeting that i was thinking of stringing up in the garage to make a blasting booth.

How much olivine do you recon i'd need?
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mike leahy on Feb 01, 2012, 08:16 PM
you could always go down oha and get a few bags from the sand crawl. cheap as chips
you could'nt get any betterwash silca sand than that. providing you apply to the ccw as it's SSSI :woohoo: :woohoo:
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mick murphy on Feb 01, 2012, 10:55 PM
no wonder you are looking older than me leahy if thats what you have on you butties silca will cement your lungs like calacite its ill eagle poorly bird yo have to use olivine
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 02, 2012, 04:32 AM
Mick,

Just got myself a 10 gallon pressurized pot blaster on ebay. Any idea wheres the best place to buy a load of olivine local to me?

Recon i might need about  6 or 7 x  25kg bags to get the job done.
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mike leahy on Feb 03, 2012, 08:47 AM
[quote="TimWatts" post=4545]Mick,

 Any idea wheres the best place to buy a load of olivine local to me?

.[/quote]

 if its anything to do with that plastic scouser it will be off the back of a lorry :whistle: :whistle: not that im generalising
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mick murphy on Feb 07, 2012, 12:01 AM
Hi Tim
       J Reid Engineering ltd, factory road sandycroft,deeside.
Take the next turning left after the lights to macro, you go under a low railway bridge turn right and it is 100 yards up on the left.

                          mick
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 07, 2012, 02:20 AM
cheers murf I'll nip up there and pick some up.

Also, don't go ordering UCET van graphics (you mentioned it the other week) before speaking to me.

a) I have a computer controlled vinyl cutter (although i've never used it to do multi layer (i.e. multi colour) stickers yet - but i should be able to work it out.

b) I want some myself so if it turns out too hard to make them myself then we could do a joint order to reduce costs?
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mike leahy on Feb 07, 2012, 08:05 AM
[quote="TimWatts" post=4687]
Also, don't go ordering UCET van graphics (you mentioned it the other week) before speaking to me.

a) I have a computer controlled vinyl cutter (although i've never used it to do multi layer (i.e. multi colour) stickers yet - but i should be able to work it out.

b) I want some myself so if it turns out too hard to make them myself then we could do a joint order to reduce costs?[/quote]

 to late there all over his bloody van and have been for a fortnight
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 07, 2012, 06:34 PM
crap
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: mick murphy on Feb 12, 2012, 02:28 PM
Hi Tim
       Did you get the olivine if you need any help blasting and spraying the trailer
give me a shout as i am not working.
                                        MICK
Title: Re: Sand Blast a Trailer??
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 12, 2012, 09:39 PM
cheers mick - naa not yet, not had a day to myself since i got back from the rig. First thing is a few jobs on the new landy - well more than a few really so the trailer has shifted down the list a bit :-(

Saying that, it just about made its maiden voyage to Maenofferen and back today with 9 nervous looking UCET'ers only board with only a few relatively minor teething problems, i.e. doors and seats falling off and dropping a brake shoe to name a couple.  ;-) ;-) ;-)