Sandblasting Has Arrived!
After finely getting some sand and figuring out what was wrong my by blaster (clogged), I've gotten on track again to get to workin' on this frame. 60 years of surface rust and a lot of grease and oil has caked itself onto my frame and needs to come off so I can paint it. Even if nobody will ever see it, I'll know it's painted.

Just Starting Out...yuck.

One side has been ground to take off the bulk of "stuff" so I naturally started on the worst side to see how long this was going to take. Conclusion...a while. Two bags of silica sand for one half of one rail. It's going to be a week long job.

When I get it completed, it has to be turned over and worked on the bottom side and then try and get what I can on the inside. But, it will be worth it when I'm done.

So, I took some old exhibit piping with casters and made a new body roll around to make the body easier to work on. This will put it up at a more workable height for welding the holes in the firewall. The pipe on this unit is extremely thick and was a bear to cut but I have a ton of extra pieces to allow me to add wings to the pipe to stabilize the body. And, the swivel casters will make it easy to move around the garage as I need to.