Originally Posted by
Grand Bois
As for all of the advice about media blasting, the painter blasted my frame with sand and he uses nothing else.
When I restored my Trek we used silica blasting material (i.e. sand) very fine grit. I asked David about it and the concern that it could etch away too much metal. His response was that I'd have to hold the sand blaster less than 2 inches from the frame, and then apply a constant stream of it for at least 10 to 20 minutes to do any real harm to the tubing.