You would have to paint houses for 15 years to fully appreciate the zen like feeling I get brushing ash out of a stoveYou are weird.
Why not, Though I'm not quite sure the effort yields anything more than aesthetics which is fine if that's what your shooting for
Tore apart an old Whitfield Quest one time and bought some sand blasting media, spent about 12 hrs really getting in there and making it really clean, removing all the rust etc..., sold it to a fellow in town, went to clean it the following summer and it looked all ugly again. Cleaning stoves to the level one might put into restoring an old model A really isn't cost efficient and doesn't yeild any noticeable improvement in how the stove works, for the most part. I'm sure there is a happy medium and possibly even a place for it, say for cleaning up a part that maybe isn't readily available any more or perhaps was used from another machine and needs to to be cleaned up a touch to match the wear of a newer machine but blasting and chemicals for the most part should be reserved for "as needed" or "last resort" as my time is somewhat limited .
Yes or the new Soda Blasting is really good way to go for those light parts!
