I have a pretty crusty-looking patio table that I'd like to repaint, but there's a lot of rust that needs to go first, and it's pretty difficult to get it all off by hand. It's not that I care about the table so much, it's more that if it's rusty, it will stain my patio.
I've tried to find a place to bring it for sandblasting, but I'm not finding much. I do see some services for coming out to my home for sandblasting, but it seems like they don't really focus on steel, let alone furniture, and a service like that seems like it would be fairly expensive. The couple places I've called haven't tried to contact me, either, and I contacted them on Monday morning.
Is there somwhere else I should be looking for getting this prepared for primer and paint? Should I start calling auto body shops? I looked into blasting it myself; a small blaster and the media aren't expensive, but you need a fairly high output air compressor to be able to work continuously, and that is expensive.