Cost to Blast Truck cab

[mygmctruck]

I want to have my 68 truck cab blasted and primed , I have only received one quote of a $1000.00 and not sure if it's a fair price or not.
The primer won't be epoxy , it would be a cheaper primer to get me by so I can transport it 200 miles in the winter weather.

[DaHos]

Another 100 or so miles would get it done for about 1/2 that.......http://www.michiganblastking.com/

[CC69Rat]

~$600 media blasted and PPG DP / 401 Epoxy primed in this area. $1000 in primer to 'get by' means you'll want to knock that primer back off once you put Epoxy on it to bring it back up for paint. I'd go ahead and get the person who blasts it to put it in some sort of Epoxy primer for safe keeping until you're ready for high build.

Epoxy has a 7 day work window so go ahead and plan to have to DA the Post blast Epoxy @ 220 then re-coat once you start the painting process.

So:

Blasted
Epoxy primed
The truck sits for two weeks or two years, doesn't matter that way. Basic 'primer' is pourous and will let water and humidity penetrate it down to your bare metal. So the metal will rust from underneath. If it's in Epoxy (not pourus) you'll be safer longer if that makes sense.
DA at 220 - you don't have to dig it all back out, just knock it down 75-80% and rough it back up. Then 2-3 more coats of DP Epoxy
You have 7 days at that point to apply High Build primer and begin blocking. The reason for this is a chemical bond between the Epoxy and the high build primers. If you wait longer than the 7 day work window, the Epoxy gets incredibly hard and will not allow a good 'bond' for your primer.
Southern Polyurethanes (a.k.a. SPI) also has some really good Epoxy and High Build 2K primers. .. and they're much cheaper than PPG stuff.
Once it's in high build, you're good

Think of the Epoxy as your 'protection coat' you just want that shield under your primer to make sure no water penetrates.

It would bother me to pay $1,000 for blasting then the d@mn cab rust from the inside out and you never know it until you sanded the primer back off. The sanding dust would be a nice brown color. I'd look for another blaster personally.

Hope this helps.
Chad

[gysgtc]

This summer I paid $150 to have all of my cab blasted. When I got it home I sprayed it with "after blast" and it has been sitting in the unheated part of my garage without a trace of rust.