[Terry, NJ]

I don't know which is worse to do, sandblasting, with all the (for me) preparations and mess or wire brushing with my huge and heavy old angle grinder with a 9" wire wheel. With the sand blasting, I do out on the cement pad on a dry day. No Cabinet! And the sand particles break down into a fine dust that gets in everywhere. It requires my compressor to run almost continually. The ceramic nozzles are long ago worn out and expensive to replace, so Turned them out of 1/2' S.S. rod. It works, not great, but it works. The Wire wheel is heavy and tiring and shoots loose wires all over, but I think it's faster than the sand. In Feb., I happened to brush my left knee and instantly ruined a good pair of pants and gouged about 1 1/2" of muscle and skin, maybe 1/4" deep into my upper leg. So, each method has it's pitfalls. The problem is, I'm not planning to do anymore cars after this. I'm just days away from my 71st birthday and restoring cars is just too much work, so I've tried to do everything in a cheap and dirty way, rather than build a full size blast room.
Terry