100 miles

There was a time that the idea of having the frame sandblasted by another person or company instead of doing it in-house. As tidy as that would have been, it's always preferred to do as much as possible here privately than having it done by someone else.

For that reason, a sandblasting pot was purchased from Harbor Freight. It took a bit of driving (100 miles to be more accurate) to finally find a store that actually had the tool instead of just saying that it did, but it's here and it seems to work well.

A suitable media will have to be figured out, but that won't be too hard.

Until media is purchased, the drive shaft was blasted in the blast cabinet just to find a place to start. It was a relief to find that even though the shaft seemed pitted, it cleaned up really nicely and should finish out well with a coat of paint.

Speaking of paint, a quart or so of urethane paint needs to be purchased to paint a host of parts that are meant to look like raw steel. This part is one of those and would look good in a flat, gun metal paint.