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When I built my Track-T I used round tubing for the frame. It was actually black iron well pipe which has a sort of varnish coating on the outside. It sands off fairly easy on small pieces,.. but a whole frame with lots of welded intersections, etc.?? I bought a $15 sand blaster (basically a gun, a hose, and a siphon tube) and a $10 hood, got 300 pounds of "play sand" at Lowes, built a dam out of plywood to catch the sand, and I blasted the entire frame myself.

It took me all day, one day. When I would run out of sand in my big plastic bucket, I would shovel it up, sift it through a large sieve (from the cooking area at Walmart), and use it again. I wore out 4 tips in the sandblaster gun; I had to make a couple of them by drilling a 9/64 hole through short pieces of 1/2 inch round stock, so that slowed me down just a bit. All together it cost me $15 for the sandblaster and $10 for the hood(both which I still have), about $4 for the sieve (also still have), and $20 for the sand. The plywood and the bucket were just stuff I had lying around. It was messy and tedious, but the good news was it was cheap and, best of all, I didn't have to wait on anybody.