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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 2916" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>We did it ourselves. I have a 27 cfm 2 stage compressor on service truck and a 100 lb presurized sand blaster. Now that I have a decent shop compressor we twinned it in as well. (additional 18 cfm) which brought our tank pressure up to 150 psi from @ 100 with just the 27 cfm er. The small parts I took down to the local machine shop and paid $25 to use his glass blasting cabinet. Still it took @ 2000 lbs of sand for the machine, and about 12 hours. This is about the bigest project I'd recomend with a 3mm dia nozzle, it goes kinda slow. But it sure is nice to watch the rust vanish. Cab was basted right clean inside and out and so was the bobtach, as well as all the bare metal on the loader (except underneath) We straighten out any of the minor dings as best we could and its pretty decent. Much better then the 553 with the early style tailgate, those bend so easy, that one was a bear. I've primed and sanded up to 3 coats in some areas and most of the rust pits are gone now. May give it one more yet, shiny paint show imperfections 10 fold. I still have to make the new bosses for the tilt cyl on the bobtach. I took you advice and bought hardened bushing (bearing material, from tympkin bearings) and I'm going to bush it in all 3 places. See if that keeps the hole from stretching out. I also used the tympkin bushings for the lower bobtach pins. They are .250 thick instead of 1/8". as the old lower bushings were as much stretched as wore. I also welded a extra ring around the outside of the lower boss to prevent stretching, since I bored the inside oversized and thinned the wall. I need to get back on it, now that the parts are in but we are planning house addition/renovation starting in 2 weeks, so thats been eating up my time. Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>

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