Can A Shock Be Taken Apart?

Jammies

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I have 2 shocks I'd like to take apart and clean up. I read that you have to compress the spring completely and then undo a clip or something? Can someone elaborate? And if I do this will the shock need to be reserviced? Thanks in advance.
 
You'd have to be more specific on the shocks. What are they from?

A lot of shocks are non rebuildable and cannot be re-serviced. You can, however, remove the spring with a Shock Spring Compressor.
 
blaster shocks are not servicable, or even taken apart
 
They're LT80 shocks, for my current build. Pretty small little things, I doubt they'd be serviceable if it's not a common thing to do.
 
yes, i've taken the springs off to paint and clean also
but thats not servicing them
 
I understand that is not servicing then. So I'm left with two questions:

1) How is it that you get the springs off?

2) Could I sandblast them (Springs off) without damaging anything?