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He does blasting too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHe4I0UjjQ
Obviously it's not as accessible as hand sanding, and I don't suppose that most places that do blasting have experience of stripping a carbon part that is structural, if they have experience of stripping carbon at all that is!
SCS-
Yeah nah, I'm like fuck it, I'm not confident I can pull it off, despite having a history of pretty bangin' first tries at stuff like this, and it wouldn't be my first try, even. Definitely prefer to drop the dough on a pro, and it seems to me that with a bit of experimentation and experience, someone should have found a good blasting medium and got a good feel for it by now...
OTOH, I'd way rather I bugger it up than pay someone else to bugger it up, and if there's nobody in Melbourne or Oz who's up to it, I'm not down for shipping my frameset around the world; fuck that shit these days...
ETA: watched the vid, wish that bloke was a local... Still, I guess I don't need to find a bike painter with a blasting booth; just maybe either a specialised or very generalised blaster dude - can't see anything about the process that requires it to be a bike guy, unlike painting.
Kimmo
That's what I was afraid of... Pretty bumming there isn't a good medium for blasting, was hoping walnut shell or some sort of plastic beads were a goer.
Stripped a carbon frame by scraping back in the day, and overdid it; extremely tough to stop at the boundary between carbon and paint. Maybe not such a bummer with unidirectional carbon, but crimes on show with twill.
The frame I want to strip has brushed metal decals and stripe tape under clear; the prospect of sanding what's left of the clear after the decals have been peeled, without going into adjacent bare carbon is pretty daunting...