{"id":1000,"date":"2013-07-12T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T22:46:16","slug":"soda-blasting-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/soda-blasting-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Soda Blasting Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are the original Ram Air hood, &#8216;new&#8217; fenders, and front &amp; rear valances in the Ram before taking them to the soda blaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/preblasted.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/preblasted.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/preblasted.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/preblasted.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sucky part about this whole thing is that the &#8216;blasters kept my stuff for over a month, and it turned out the soda blasting didn&#8217;t really work very well.  The hood was so etched I needed to spend an afternoon sanding it down anyway, and the fenders suffered the usual front end damage these cars are famous for (the hood&#8217;s longer than you think, people).  Didn&#8217;t get a lot done during that time except nit noids that I didn&#8217;t get pics of (mostly wasted time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the original Ram Air hood, &#8216;new&#8217; fenders, and front &amp; rear valances in the Ram before taking them to the soda blaster. The sucky part about this whole thing is that the &#8216;blasters kept my stuff for over a month, and it turned out the soda blasting didn&#8217;t really work very well. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}