Soda Blasting to Strip Old Finishes

Scott R Smith

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This Soda Blasting technique uses baking soda to strip old finishes.

You can get different granual sizes for tougher paints.


It looks a lot more Personell freindly than the chemical method, and seems to move along quickly.

No health hazzrds either.


Harbor Freight sells a setup for this.

I'm thinking of using this to strip lacqur from a veneered tabletop, to avoid the hassle of chemical strippers.

Has anyone tried it? Any downsides to using it other than baking soda dust?

 
Scott,
Curious also. I was at HF yesterday contemplating a soda blaster. I know they are used in the auto body area to remove paint and wondered how they would perform on wood. I was thinking one might be helpful cleaning up the natural edge on a bench I'm building.
 
Even though it isn't as harsh as sand blasting, you are shooting an abrasive at your workpiece. If you aren't extremely careful, I bet you could cause great damage. I would also use more than casual dust mask.
 
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