My DIY sodablasting setup 

Soda blasting gun I use: amzn.to/2BlI6kw

I give this a thumbs up, it's informative and simple. Just be cautious and careful aerating a mold, can be dangerous for lungs. Of course don't clean brake parts like this, use mask etc. Wear gloves with hazardous stuff guys.... just a friendly reminder from someone who has had cancer.

Use anti- caking agent ( silicone dioxide ) @ 0.6% and mix it up well with the Soda and you will never have to shake it like that again. Very good project :)

Try adding an in-line water separator or a DIY aftercooler for your compressor. I know from experience that it's essential to have dry air for sandblasting to keep the media from clumping. You'll notice a big difference. Good video.

It sounds counterintuitive, but I use salt in my harbor freight soda gun. It's cheep, and works better than soda. Of course I typically pressure wash or use a high strength detergent afterwards. I have an aluminum manifold that was cleaned quicker and better than with soda. Just a suggestion.

Right on, thanks for sharing and thank you for adding subtitles!!

Funny at 3:30 and after to see you struggling to make the device works: shaking, turning knobs etc... It's gravity fed! Can't work vertically or worse upside down. Just make sure the objects you want to blast are more or less in horizontal line of sight of your gun (may be quite difficult for a cylinder block...). Also blasting soda have anti crumpling additives and is coarser, yet less prone to clog the feeder.

you need to be using a blast cabinet to reclaim your media and keep it sorta clean. I got 120 lbs of glass beads I have been using for at least 17 years and since I tank everything that goes into the cabinet and de-grease it prior the only contaminates in my beads is carbon and rust and beads look like new. Although I run my cabinet at 120 psi . your just throwing money away doing that on the ground like that.

Watching soda blast cleaning is so satisfying.............don't know why.

I used to have an air hose like yours. It made work horrible. I upgraded to the wider air hose and the difference was between day and night.

I've had good luck doing low-powered soda blasting on aluminum and painted steel using a less powerful air compressor. I'm not sure what exact model it is, because someone painted mine, including its labels, before I bought it used, but it seems to be identical to a Rolair FC2002, and very similar to a Jenny A2G246-HC4V. These have a 2 hp MK246 single-cylinder air compressor motor, four gallon tank (two tanks of two gallons each), and they do about 4.12 CFM (cubic feet per minute) at 95 psig, which it's able to maintain while the motor is running continuously during the blasting. For the blasting gun, I have a Central Pneumatic blasting kit that I bought from Harbor Freight, item 37025, that comes with a plastic bin in which you put the blasting media, and while it's a siphon-fed setup, it works for me, but I can see that a gravity-fed gun might be better. I kept finding that the siphon tube keeps pulling so much of the blasting soda out of the bin, that it's not long before it creates empty space around the end of the siphon hose that's picking up the media, so I have to shake the bin every now and then to collapse the pile of media back around the end of the siphon hose. I later realized that if I attached the plastic bin to the top of the compressor motor setup, that the vibrating motor might keep the bin shaking enough so that the media would keep flowing towards and into the siphon end of the hose. I haven't tested that theory yet, because I have my compressor motor torn apart to clean and paint it, and that process isn't done yet. Using baking soda, I was able to blast off some average paint from an old valve cover, and some light carbon from a cylinder head, but it wasn't able to remove some of the more embedded bits of carbon. For that, I'll be trying ground walnut shells next, which are the next Mohs hardness scale value above soda. I first used Arm & Hammer baking soda, because I wanted to see if it would work, and it worked well within limits, as I describe. Next I tried baking soda for washing clothes, which is a little harder, and it worked a little better, but even when I wore protective goggles, a couple bits of it got into my eyes, and itched like hell, which didn't happen with the baking soda. I found that baking soda couldn't blast away congealed oil, because it would just become embedded in the oil, so you need to thoroughly clean off all oil first. I really recommend doing your blasting outdoors if possible, or in a blast cabinet, because as you can see in this video, it gets all over very quickly.

You need to hold gun more level so gravity will feed powder , when your pointing nose down gravity feed it up above powder supply instead of under supply . You need to position your target 🎯 at the correct angle’s of Fire

Maybe if the cylinder head was standing up and the hopper was level you would have less feeding issues. Cheers.

Put an in line air dryer in your setup. Will require less "shaking" of the gun.

Thanks for the great tips for soda blasting !

It would work better if you used actual blasting soda. Store bought soda is to fine which is why the nozzle gets clogged so often. I discovered that the hard way and when I made the switch to actual blasting soda the gun worked flawlessly.

the soda in a gravity gun needs to fall "down" to the air feed, i.e with gravity, once you hold the gun on its side, horizontal the media cant fall, hence you shake it, change the air etc, nothing works unless the gun is upright, not great for this application

I bought one gravity gun (exactly like yours, just green) with two canisters of media, and two extra nozzles for 12€ on Lidl.

looks good. One suggestion is to wear ear hole pluggers too. That stuff will end up in any hole that isnt protected;)

Excellent video ....thanks bro!!!

if head and part of engine that full oily and need to cleen up....i use these 3 ingredients -petrol@gasoline(1L) -cloth soap(strongest) -alkaline degreaser(1L) -water and submerge the part for one night(12hour) or one day for best result...

Great video, I think this tool could use to remove rust, but need to change abrasive to sand or glass or others. We already tested it and very well to remove rust.

Really good vid. I'm a noob at this so wasn't really sure what to buy. I want to strip paint of wood, fix car parts and the like so only need a small system. I bought the syphon gun before watching this vid. Now I think I will need a bigger compressor and/or a gravity feed. Thanks

I have about the same compressor specs and have been debating this exact same gun. Shame you can't replace the nozzle with something a bit smaller (3/32 instead of 3/16). Still, nice results, may pick one up this weekend.

Great results

The container may be pressurised, but the solid soda will fall with gravity to go through the aperture provided in the container and so it will not work and it is no good shaking it.

blend the soda so the innner moisture could trap inside air molecules then vapourise

one more is, the compressor also have water vapour thats why the soda stucks sometime

Haha! I had exactly the same dish drainer with exactly the same mould.

DATS THE WAY GENIOUS START BY DOING THINK N GET THEM BETTER N BETTER,THANK U YOUNGER BROTHER,SERVANT OF GOD.MAYBE A STONGER COMPRESSOR CAN HELP.

Thank you for sharing this very useful and educating i will try use this...many thanks

Go to harbor freight and get a sand blast cabinet and 50lbs of blasting soda, it's a much better setup. I have one and it works great

Just FYI for everyone watching this video. Soda blasting WILL remove rust but requires higher pressures and CFM rates than your setup can provide.

Looks nice! Be great for cleaning up oxidized aluminum engine components like cam or rocker covers, timing chain covers etc. if removed. I always hate how chalky raw aluminum gets. Not a big fan of the techno(?) music but don't mind me, I'm an old fart...

I wonder if rust could be removed by first giving the part the electrolysis treatment (see this elsewhere on RU-vid), which reduces the rust to a black form of iron oxide that can be scrubbed off. I haven't tried this, but it seems possible... Also, it seems that most RU-vidrs demonstrating this soda blasting technique are doing so without the benefit of a blasting cabinet. We're all trying to get results with minimum expense, aren't we?

4age 16v big port head! Very good engines

Sir, I might advise you - the Gun is built to hold HORIZONTAL, not VERTICAL... thats why your media clogs up and you have to shake it....

Thanks for posting this!

could you attach a larger pot on the top with modifications say white stormwater pipe 150mm unsure of the pipe size with a adaptor piece which is threaded then a screwable end cap from bunnings double your soda feed ????????? just an idea make it about the size of a spray putty pot it would also require a tube/feed from the mod pvc pipe to pick up the nozel feed

Nice Video. I have minimal luck with blasting before but you have convinced me to give it another go when the time is right. Qustion: is there any evidence of aluminum removal? does it fog the metal like sand blasting does?

Is it not best to put the parts on their side so as to be able to keep the gun facing horizontal rather than pointing down?

Good info thanks.

Hey you gona need for you air compressor a water separator and maybe help to the gun do get to much cloogin.

salt is one a rust accelarator. for some reason cars nears oceans get rusty faster.

i bought one of those gravity fed guns i cant get it to work with soda. shaking it doesnt help i got enough air flow but i dont know whats going on

Yep, I wouldn't want to breathe black mold either.

4AG-E the best engine ever build ...

Not one time did you hold the gravity feed blaster in the proper position. the nozzle needs to be pointed in a horizontal and slightly downward angle with the hopper up

good solution :)

Good video and song. What is the name of it?

What's soda blasting ? Projecting Coca-Cola ? 😁

Works with Woody f Varnish?

I assumed store bought soda was too fine to blast with? Is this down to your higher PSI here? I’m cleaning not removing rust. Using the same gun as you and power rating compressor as you.

danach würde ich gerne den laufbild der nockenlager sehen )))

hi thx for youre video, can you tell me the compressor sepcs?...

have you ever used white powder from fire extinguisher?

hello brother! can you help me to have complete set of head gasket for 4age 20v, please.

Is it basically baked soda

Ok soda blasting , I'm just wondering for the harder stuff to remove would it work with salt, I mean salt tends to be more grity so perhaps salt would work on rust.

Is it posible to clean the electric part?

It's a gravity feet blaster, it doesn't work upside down, stop holding it upside down... I don't think you know how gravity works... haha just kidding, good job on the cylinder head.

proxima compra pistola de soda blasting

so you bought everythiing... where's the DIY?

does nt it damnage the seat valve???

Can standard paint spray gun be used? With tank under pistol?

Didnt say where you got the sprayer or how much it cost

There's some soda that's on the surface after blasting. Does it come off with air or does it need a wash?

could the gun be used with sand for other blasting purpose??

shoulda stood everything up , but any who looks good

is that a 4age head you're blasting?!

What is the soda blaster? In Brazil i dont can buy with this name.

yeaaah 4age!

can you remove paint from wood ?

Thump head music

How about wheels?

wont whole place be full of powder ?

Are you using Pepsi or Coke?

YO! nice 4age head!

Will this remove corrosion from carburettor body?

Hi

have you tried using sand with this setup?

Is this an SR engine your working on?

And I thought americans order soda in a restaurant

hi how much it cost with gan ? can you sendet to me ?

i think my twenty gallon compresoor can handle this

4age head?

Dont give up the day job thats for sure !!i mean top marks for trying hut its gotta work especially with D.I.Y shit at home most guysnare havin a gew cans of the nice stuff or beer as they labour tiressly and endlessly on their mistress or bitch whatever the case may be and when it comes to the end of the day and you need that blaster tomdo,its majic can u imagine how long it would take having to go form3 seconds then stop...then twist the knob...then shake it ...then go again for 3 secs,then stop. ..then shake...then twişt knob ...then.......SmaSH CRASH BANG,!!! copious amounts of various swearing a u beaut sand blaster gun smashed into a million pieces like a leggo toy your son couldnt figure out so threw at the wall? i mean really its gotta work man before it hits the tube dude really ...anyways good try keep up the mad creations ☺

Damn i really know how a 4age head looks like... I don't own a single car and im 14 Plz don't hate on me

Check out KFLY67 on his site he is removing rust with ease only difference is his gun and it really the same just a different brand he got his at Harbor Freight. Check him out KFLY67

4age😁

waste of money

Not a bad video, however it's such a pity that your microphone was broken. Such a pain in the ass to type all those captions! And so dreadful for viewer that we have to read them too. I wonder if, 4 years later, you've saved enough money from DIY to afford a few bucks to buy a new microphone? EDIT TO ADD: I watched more, and noticed the microphone DOES work. So, to solve everything all you need to do is FUCKING SPEAK !!!!