When I started restoring my T4, there was no bead blasting shop in town. The sand blasting folks looked at the legshield and laughed mightily and proclaimed that their powerful weaponry would go through the tin like Superman's snot through wet kleenex. So I spent a very long time inhaling PolyStrippa, absorbing it through my skin and generally taking a few years off my life to get the multiple layers of paint off the scooter. The primer was especially nasty.
Now, several years later, there is a shop that does metal, glass and even walnut shell blasting dirt cheap. It would have cost me less than what I spent in poly strippa not to mention the time spent doing it and the time removed from my life. And it would have been done better and faster.
I did just get my hubs, swan neck tail light, head set and the little metal plate where the fork bolts to the front fender done. Fast. Cheap. Damn. Now I am addicted to blasting stuff. He has my front spring and a heating grate from my kitchen (which is going to get powder coated). Yay EZ Blast (Regina)!
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