Welcome to the CALIFORNIA SODA BLAST & CAL BLAST WEBSITE. 

 I hope you will take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with my company and maybe learn a thing or two about soda blasting as well as other stripping techniques currently used.   I appologise for some issues we are having on this website, as it is still under construction, and I thank you for your patience.

WHAT IS CALIFORNIA SODA BLAST & CAL BLAST ?

Cal Blast is quickly become Southern California premier blast facility catering solely to the automotive restoration crowd.   Although we specialize in Soda blasting, we also offer other alternative medias for various needs.  We also manufacture and sell body carts and rotisseries.  Unlike some of the other Soda strippers you might find online, everything you see on this site is OUR work.  You will not see the same Coca Cola truck or Memorial Statue here.

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Approximately 80% of our work is done for professional builders, fabricators, and paint shops.  We have become the sub contractor for these shops to do the dirtiest job of any restoration, the paint removal.  During this past year, we were asked to Soda Blast cars for two different TV shows.  The first show was for Barry White of Barry's Speed Shop called "Wrecks to Riches".   The build car is a '71 Chevelle that will show us Soda blasting the car.  It will be on TLC, the 14th of June.  The second show we did is for a new TV show called Hard Shine featuring Jimmy Shine of So-Cal Speed Shop Fame.   This show will have us working a few different projects throughout the 10 episodes doing a variety of different medias.  Hard Shine will be debuting on July 12th on TLC also.

A  LITTLE "MEDIA" CLARIFICATION.. 

  I am often asked, "What is better, soda blasting or media blasting?"  First of all Soda Blasting is media blasting.  Media blasting, simply stated, is shooting media (baking soda, plastic, sand, garnet, glass bead, aluminum oxide, walnut shells, etc.) through a pressurized hose for the purpose of coating removal.  The coatings to be removed could be paint, bondo, undercoat, rust, adhesive,  powder coating, anodizing, carbon buildup, oil, grease, or even just a bad odor.  It is very important that you match the correct Media to what coating you are removing, as well as to what you are removing the coating from, this is called the substrate.

SO WHAT IS SODA BLASTING?.. 

 Soda blasting is actually Bicarbonate of Soda, more commonly called Baking Soda.  If you have that little yellow box of Arm & Hammer in your fridge or freezer, you're already familiar with baking soda. In fact, Cal Blast proudly uses several Arm & Hammer media products under the name of Armex.  Armex has several blasting medias that have moisture inhibitors, flow additives,  and various formulations for different substrates.  The main advantage to baking soda is that it is not an abrasive like the other medias listed before.  Soda is actually a crystal.  Instead of grinding off coatings like other medias, Soda actually fractures when it hits the coating and pops the coating off, leaving the substrate smooth, with little to no profiling.  We can actually soda blast right over glass and chrome without pitting or damaging it.  Since traditional medias are abrasive, they create heat while they are stripping.  This heat can cause warping costing hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix.  There is no heat generated  with Soda Blasting, therefore no warping.

Call Cal Blast locally at (909) 949-9505 or

at  1-877 225-2527