A look at recent sandblasting, dustless blasting, dry ice blasting, and coating work across North Georgia.
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Every piece below arrived with the same underlying problem: a surface that had stopped protecting what was under it. Failed coating, mill scale, rust that had gone past cosmetic, or years of buildup that no amount of pressure washing was going to shift.
The work here spans all four of our blasting methods and both sides of the operation — jobs where we took the rig out to a site, and jobs where the piece came to the Cartersville shop. Heavy equipment, fleet trailers and dump bodies, structural steel, municipal tanks, and the occasional restoration that came in looking considerably worse than it left.
If something here looks like the job sitting in your yard, call (404) 220-7803 and describe it — method and media get matched to the substrate, so the honest answer sometimes starts with a question or two.
A Class 8 dump trailer taken back to bare steel with dustless blasting. Wet media held the dust down while stripping years of road grime, salt exposure and failing coating off the body, leaving an evenly profiled surface that went to primer before flash rust had a chance to start.A Volkswagen Beetle stripped by media blasting and refinished in two-tone. Thin automotive panels will not tolerate aggressive abrasive or high pressure, so both came down to lift the old paint and filler without warping the bodywork or cutting into the sheet metal underneath.The drum from a ready-mix concrete truck, sandblasted back to bare metal. Hardened concrete had bonded to the steel along with a failing coating underneath it. High-pressure abrasive blasting took off both, restoring a surface the next coating system could actually grip.A municipal water storage tank with its original coating removed by sandblasting. Tank exteriors weather from every direction at once, so the old system had broken down unevenly. Blasting takes the whole surface back to one consistent profile rather than leaving sound patches to fail later.A dozer undercarriage and track assembly blasted down to bare metal. Undercarriages pack in soil, grease and corrosion where a pressure washer cannot reach. Stripping the assembly uniformly also makes wear and cracking visible for inspection before anything gets coated.A dozer blade sandblasted and repainted at the Cartersville shop. Working indoors meant controlled conditions end to end: blasted, inspected and coated in the same visit, with no weather delay and no window for flash rust to form between prep and paint.A structural steel canopy prepped and coated in place. Fixed structures cannot come to a shop, so the rig went to the site instead. Blasting, containment and coating all ran on location under one crew in a single mobilisation.Structural steel surface preparation carried out from a boom lift. Elevated steel means working at height with containment in place, so access equipment is part of scoping a job like this just as much as the blasting equipment is.Heavy equipment blasted and primed, loaded onto a lowboy for transport. Priming before the piece leaves is not optional in Georgia humidity, where bare steel begins flash rusting within hours and would lose its profile before reaching its destination.Sandblasting a vehicle body panel in the shop. Panel work calls for finer media and lower pressure than structural steel: enough to lift old paint and filler, not enough for heat and force to distort the sheet metal behind it.Dustless blasting equipment set up on an industrial site in North Georgia. Water introduced at the nozzle weighs the abrasive down so spent media drops instead of drifting, which is what makes the method workable on active and occupied commercial property.The mobile rig and trailer loaded and ready to roll out. Running our own equipment means the people who quoted the job are the people who arrive with it, so nothing waits on a subcontractor’s backlog before the work can start.Steel machinery parts after shot blasting. Media is thrown mechanically inside a contained system and recycled back through it, so the profile stays consistent across a whole batch, which is what matters when parts have to match once they are coated.Structural steel beams after blasting and surface preparation. Mill scale and rust are gone, and the steel carries an even anchor profile, the texture industrial coatings need in order to bond properly instead of sitting on the surface and lifting later.Welding and fabrication repair underway at the Cartersville shop. Where metal has cracked or corroded away, repair comes before finishing: the damaged section is cut back to sound material and rebuilt, then blasted and coated as part of the same job.Powder coating applied to freshly blasted parts. Charged powder wraps onto edges and recesses that liquid paint tends to run off, then the 30ft oven cures it into one continuous film, harder wearing and more even than a sprayed liquid coat.Industrial coating going onto blasted steel. The window between blasting and priming is what decides whether a coating lasts, so prep and coating run as a single job with one crew rather than being split across two separate visits.Black Beauty abrasive media, stocked from single 50lb bags up to full pallets. Grade drives the result as much as pressure does, so we help match media to the substrate, advice we give whether or not the media ends up coming from us.
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