Painting the drums

[79gmcsierragrande]

I just put new steal wheels on the truck, the rims are spoked and I can see the drums behind them. I got to thinking rusted steal drums against painted steal wheels means rusted steal wheels soon. I went to Napa and ordered caliper paint that said it was good for drums as well, it came in about the smallest $20 can I’ve ever seen and I got a discount because of my work. Anyways I need to sand blast the drums to get the rust off and our sand blaster at work sucks (jams all the time, took me an hour to do half of one). The powder coater that we use all the time will blast them for about $25-$30 bucks, the question is, is there a cheap sand blaster that works good that I can buy because I’m sure I’ll have more sand blasting to do? Also has anyone powder coated their drums before? Dose it work and last?