This man is so talented and thorough. A brilliant filmmaker too, I’m so impressed. Keep going ✨✨✨👍

Yeeees! Happiness is a rainy driveway in Ireland 🇮🇪 Thank you brother 🙌 That lotus looks fast in pieces 🤣😂

the eclectic dude you got the cabinet from deserves an interview and a tour of his goodies..so many vehicles i saw that i wish i could see more of..

As a child i wasnt a big fan of soup As an adult i cant get enough ... great content as always george

I can't wait to see the Sprinter towing the Esprit! Going to be a very cool pairing.

Best music selection of any channel - so much that I refuse to watch these on my phone unless it's connected to decent audio. The visuals are clearly gorgeous, obviously. Just no one mentions the selection of tunes, which really complement both the story and the changes in pace.

You are te most genuine and refreshing thing to ever happen to KZfaq. Never change. Love your work.

Lovely to see the Esprit looking resplendent in it's loft ;)

that thumbnail is amazing. big truck that can be driven on a car license and the best sports car with same

The Esprit, this getting exciting! Blast cabinet, nothing like making old parts new again, fixes the car and feeds the soul at the same time.

I'm actually quite enjoying the details of what goes into making a simple sandblast cabinet work.

George, the presentation of the wheel via gloved hands was amazing. A testament to your (seemingly) endless creativity and sense of humor. Loved every minute pal, glad to see the Esprit again too ;)

Awesome seeing both projects together 😊

Such a smooth seamless flow to the story, which underpins the smooth rich tones of the narration, and is perfectly complemented by the fascination of the stop motion segments… all of which is shot with a film-maker’s eye for storytelling. I think this might be your most ‘cinematic’ episode I’ve watched (and I think I’ve watched them all). Just a joy to watch. As enjoyable as any good docu-soap on commercial TV.

I wire brushed and cleaned really well the beads of my old steel wheels and then painted them with several coats put the tyres back on and the wheels it did not go flat for several years

It has been said that 'a change is as good as a holiday', and this is an excellent demonstration, George! A blasting cabinet & an ultrasonic bath are 2 things I would want when doing a restoration. We had a small ultrasonic where I worked a few decades ago. It was fantastic at getting gunk out of all sorts of places & things. At one point I even took a few motorbike carbs in that couldn't be balanced & ran them through it. They came out & were good as new afterwards! No trouble to balance then. The blasting cabinet is a great tool for getting all the surfaces, nooks & crannies cleaned, and is great prep for painting too!

yay the espirit is back that car is gorgeous

I purchased a blasting cabinet a few years ago from a company named Skat here in the states. When it comes to working on old cars, it’s pretty much my favorite tool in the shop. My cabinet has a piece of metal stretch cloth that separates and provides a platform for the item you are blasting. That way it doesn’t have to bathe in the media like your wheel was doing.

Nice job again 👍👍👍 Get a concrete steel reinforcement mesh offcut somewhere as internal table and convert an old hub or something to a rotary table. A quick upgrade well worth doing. Been there, done that. For my next project I am now building a wet blasting conversion. Lives a really nice satin finis on aluminum 😉

Nice work . Real magician . One of the best channels 👍

Yeay, no more rusty rims. Good job sir

I'm envious! Bucket list restos right there!! Thumbs up from an equally wet Co. Antrim

Got a blast cabinet 2 years ago from a Polish company, delivered for €569. It's a side loader, they had changed to a front loading design and these were on sale. Saved me a fortune! But I could do with a tandem compressor. It's in it's element at about 110psi. I think I need larger bore piping and a bigger mist separator to increase flow. Works great with Applied fine crushed glass. The filtration system is getting old, may go down the cyclone separator route in the future. Anyhow, it really helped me out and continues to do so.

Love these. Love them being more regular. You’re an absolute legend and when I see a new video I feel like I have something to look forward to that will be soup for my soul. Thank you and please keep staying stuck in.

What a transformation from rusty white to shiny coffee brown. Top work fella

Nice tool and nice to see the profile of the Lotus again

Great stuff! I bought a cheapo blast cabinet last year and need to pimp it up a little. I was planning a video on that but you’ve beaten me to it 😁

What a start of the year with George’s video,awesome video like always best wishes for this 2023 George!!

Its great to see not one but TWO projects progressing but I must say, I'm still intrigued by the colour choice for the Sprinter! Just got my own RRC through the dreaded NCT and my wallet is now in dire need of a defibrillator!

Good work as usual George. Great to see the Esprit coming back into the picture too!

Looking forward to the episode when you time-lapse heat-gun all the grey bumper plastic! :) great work. Those wheels will look great with the mini-moons :)

Greetings from South Florida, I see you are enjoying a typical winter in Ireland - know it well! Looking forward to getting back to Ballymoney later in the year!

Awesome work once again. Looking forward to the Esprit, looks like that build is picking up pace again. Nice!

Good to see you to ring in the new year. Nice score on the Blaster!

You got good value with this cabinet!

YESSSSSSS!!! GUYS ITS A NEW SOUP VIDEO TODAY! HAPPY 2023 Y’ALL!!!!!!

BTW love your work and filming got so many friends watching .

loved the video my man, always fun to watch. i used to do some small media blasting, stuffs tedious but man they come out looking good

Awesome , great score, great video

Great work George

Super excited for the future episodes!

Love to see more with the W211.

Good to see you back mate!

Channel should be called 'Everything But The Lotus'

Thanks George.

What a treat.

I built a cyclone vac system very similar for wood working projects - I found I needed internal reinforcement of the barrel so stop it collapsing. Just a word to the wise in case you suffer the same. Great work mate - keep it up

Me thinks an obsessed swordsman just got a heck of a sharpening tool in his shed. Things should be getting fun soon!

A fantastic surprise 🎉🎉🎉

Fab stuff as always George. Keep up the good work.

Happy New Year George, great video as ever from SCM.

Another great video! Keep it up man.

،really excited for that w124. ❤

Trick of the trade so to speak but if you find that you start to go through screens on the blaster you can put strips of tape over the new screen and tear it off when it starts to get hammered from the media revealing fresh clear vision 😊

Awesome work the LOTUS I speak for many no doubt …I cannot wait … those control arms maybe box them they look spindly?

Great to see more videos coming! like and then start watching

That media look like it’s had it’s day , crushed glass is cheep but doesn’t last that long. ALUMINIUM OXIDE ABRASIVE cuts very well!!

Can't wait to see those wheels and caps.

Thx you

12:32 POV mode, engaged. 😘

In your shoes I would have to get the esprit boxed off! It’s up there with your Range Rover as a perfect design.

Great work grafta .mike scotland

Little else is as satisfying as media blasting crusty old parts and making them look new again. That said, I've been around enough blast cabinets to know that this one is going to leak media everywhere during use.

AWESOME George.. My cabinet is one of those ‘chinesium’ knockoffs works OK… better when Jed is working on it. Ear defence and face mask highly recommended although your extraction system a bit better than my shop vac… Jed only work the sand blaster when he is not ‘languishing’ on the floor under something with the needle scaler… some say I am too soft on the lad… maybe.. either way he can’t hear me swearing about his ‘slow work rate’ over the noise of that compressor… or shop vac… OR BOTH!!

malheureusement je ne comprends pas grand chose, mais videos toujours aussi sympas a regarder! si un jour je passe en irlande j espere que tu auras au bon plan pour un B&B !! bonne année

The title of this is good news...my BMW project has ground to a halt. I'm meant to be renovating the house so obviously for Xmas I bought myself a motorcycle that needs a little TLC....the misses doesn't share my logic though

This is sooooo me! 😅 Two projects are better than one. And what's better than two, you may ask? 😂😂😂

Спасибо за ваши видео и такой хороший канал!!! Интересно смотреть!

We have a local company , chemical dip , hand finish then , powder coat , prime, colour , clear , 200GBP on steels that size . and will take off and put the tyres back on , they run 24 hours a day .

Your extraction system sucks. Sorry, couldn't resist. Loving the video.

GeeeehhorrrrrGGEEEEEEEEEEEH!!! HAVE A GREAT 2023!!!!! OHH EVERYBODY ELSE TOOOO!!!! And, LOOOOOTUS!LOOOOTUS!LOOOOTUS!LOOOOOOOOOOOOTUUUUUUUHHSSSS!!!!!!

A grate inside the cabinet will make it easier to use.

From the restorer's point of view mixing some variety is a good idea. Though from a viewer's perspective, the lotus is the one I really enjoy watching. Not so keen on the van.

Sure as hell beats sanding and grinding by hand.

No idea why KZfaq didn't notify me for this one. :(

Would recommend using a whip hose on the blast gun instead of using the quick connect inside the cabinet

I used a similar container under a cyclonic thingy, the vacuum collapsed it, but being bloody minded I beat it out again an installed a pressure release valve.

You can "restore" those bumpers on the sprinter with a heat gun, brings out the original color back

ESPRIT!!

Nice work George! What blasting media are you using? I bought a similar sized cabinet last summer and it's the best investment I've made in my workshop. I wish I bought one years ago. Had to make a significant investment to upgrade my compressor at the same time to run it, but both the compressor and cabinet were worth every penny as it's made proper in-house restoration of old rusty car parts a possibility without having to pay third parties to blast stuff for me.

Nice vid. I think you should really have removed that balance weight and valve from the wheel, George

It looks like there's a bit of a bend to the sides where you were putting the hole covers on - did you need to seal up the holes with epoxy to make sure they're going to be able to seal in the media? Also, the rim looked like it would benefit from a wetsand and then some quality gaffer tape to improve the seal - not as good as a purpose designed edging tape but with a bit of heat and glue if necessary it would probably last a year or two. Heat on it would help get the seal around the edge to it's best. I don't think I watched the whole of the video but I saw a guy trying to convert a fridge to a media-blasting cabinet by putting a perspex window in and cutting the holes for the gloves and the air-inlet pipe. This looked kind of crazy to me but when I see people like yourself trying to blast something that is too big for their cabinet, I know they'll see a chest freezer being thrown out and ask a mate who lives in the sticks if they'll think about converting it. Maybe you won't need one of those.....

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George, would you not consider painting the bumpers on the Sprinter same color as the van?

dude Soup.... that porche at 1:02 , got any more info on it, that thing looks sooo bad ass. i wanna see more of it. wide body looks good on it

what psi do you run the sand blaster at? and where in ireland do you buy media ?

I need the blasting guru's to help me find a working airgun and media to make my cabinet blasting please! Tryed 2 guns and 4 sand but neither are removing the paint from my rims :(

I thought for a moment you are putting a lotus esprit body on a sprinter floor pan, ive come up with a cunning plan Lotus esprit limo on a sprinter, ok bonnet for engine might be a problem 🤔

George! The lower left corner of the rear cargo door. WTF? 0:42

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You said there would be colonic irrigation. It's getting so hard to find on youtube.

Who else was waiting for the media blaster to become a sentient stop-frame-animated robot? Arm hole eyes, handle nose, obvious mouth.

What does the logo on the number plate mean?

You can turn bampers black with fire

When is it project burn out and when just a paus? 🤔🙃

Your tip is indeed PINK ! Doesn't sound wrong in the slightest... sweet cheeks 😆

killed a lot like that .

What happened to the Lotus??? 😔

You will probably want to do the wheel nuts as well or it will look shoddy 🤔

Surprised the plasma cutter doesn’t start inside the cutaway section, but instead makes an ugly hole at the starting point…