SandBlastKit ad: Sandblastkit.pro

Three hours into the quarter panel, you find out how honest the last guy was. Under filler that looked fine from the driveway, there it is. Rust that's been sitting there since before you owned the car, spreading quietly under somebody else's bodywork. That's the part nobody posts. The car doesn't look worse. It looks identical. You just spent an afternoon proving the problem is deeper than your tool reaches. A grinder hits surfaces. Rust lives in depth. So you price the alternative: compressor, blast pot, two thousand dollars and a machine that needs its own circuit — for a car you work on Saturdays. Or you hand it to a shop for twelve hundred and watch someone else do work you're fully capable of. Here's what neither option tells you: *the pressure washer in your garage already makes the pressure.* It always has. What it never had was a way to feed media into that stream and keep feeding it without choking. That's the whole problem. That's the one thing the Carbide 600 solves. Gravity-fed delivery. Air assist. A patent-pending metering sleeve valve that doesn't clog. Connects in about a minute, then runs continuously. Full car strip: 20–25 bags of 20 grit, roughly $400 in media, 7–9 hours of blasting. You budget by panel, never by car — hood 1.5, roof 1.5, trunk lid 1, door and fender 1.5, quarter 1, bumper 1. One side. Double it. Roof first, work down. Rocker panel before you're tired. On big panels cut an X, punch through, work outward off that edge. Bare metal. Every panel. Every seam a disc never touched. No compressor. No blast pot. No shop bill.