{"id":890,"date":"2010-03-18T20:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irsandy.wordpress.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2010-03-18T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:03:03","slug":"blasting-in-calgary-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/blasting-in-calgary-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasting in Calgary Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously wrote about the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/irsandy.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/15\/blasting-in-calgary\" target=\"_blank\">Consolidated Compressor<\/a> here in Calgary &#8211; I&#8217;ve been back there a few times since first writing about them. This is the place that sells do-it-yourself sand blasting by the hour, and its a great service to have available locally. When I was over there this past week, I noted they have a few additional offerings &#8211; they have recently set up two bead blasting cabinets suitable for smaller items. Several media are available included glass bead, walnut shells, garnet etc. They also have a small capacity sand blaster outside in a covered area, and using a finer grit media than at the larger, more commercial grade blasting stations. Still no soda blasting option, but I suppose if enough people ask for it, then eventually they may offer that also !<\/p>\n<p>Air supplied breathing helmets, ear plugs and heavy gloves are provided, and for someone like myself who needs this sort of thing just a few times per year it&#8217;s actually almost fun &#8211; recommended !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously wrote about the folks at Consolidated Compressor here in Calgary &#8211; I&#8217;ve been back there a few times since first writing about them. This is the place that sells do-it-yourself sand blasting by the hour, and its a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/blasting-in-calgary-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,225],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Yjgi-em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}