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Soda blasting? That's a ubiquitous process being performed literally all the time. Yeah, blasting, grinding, cutting, forging, and dozens of other industrial p
by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Soda blasting? That's a ubiquitous process being performed literally all the time.
Yeah, blasting, grinding, cutting, forging, and dozens of other industrial processes are nasty and messy, but that isn't the hassle. The problem here is secrecy and finding shops with a large enough blasting bay (there are thousands of auto body shops with bays for blasting full size trucks and other large vehicles - literally 15 on Google Maps within half an hour of me) and having laborers with top-secret clearance to do the work. All so 1970s tech can stay a secret.
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- packetized 8y agoI would say all of that is part of the process of stripping low-RCS paint.
- stonemetal 8y agoI didn't realize full size trucks had gotten over 60 feet long and 40 feet wide.
- LeifCarrotson 8y agoSorry, wasn't very clear - the booths are usually 24x12 or so, sized to fit cars and trucks, not F117 size. That's part of the problem.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThey're not but the point was that the size isn't all that special. A shop that blasts and paints bulldozers could do it.