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Title: Dry Ice blast cleaning
Post by: martin19842 on January 21, 2005, 07:54:15 pm

hi there

ok need some views please, or experience.

has anyone done any dry ice blast cleaning, especially on concrete areas.

whether it be companies that they have used in the past, or if anybody has a dry ice set up.

either reply or PM please

and have a great weekend everybody,

regards

martin

Title: Re: Dry Ice blast cleaning
Post by: carloso on January 31, 2005, 12:49:11 pm

hi martin
found this in my bookmarks looks like what you want

cheers
http://www.cleansurface.co.uk/layout.htm

Title: Re: Dry Ice blast cleaning
Post by: DP on January 31, 2005, 01:45:26 pm

I watched a live demo in Portugal once, cleaning smoke contaminated cable runs on a production line, so I have seen the set up and investigated it myself some time ago.

Not sure if I can help but happy to try.
DP

Title: Re: Dry Ice blast cleaning
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on January 31, 2005, 10:10:18 pm

hi martin,
             cleanit up newbie here, a friend of mine ran an
ice blasting company, in cumbria until a few months ago.
he ran it for a couple of years but gave it up due to lack of
work. i once gave him a hand on a job at british gypsum
(plaster board manufacturers) cleaning a drying plant.
fantastic system,but very noisy as it req a huge compressor
to run it. it also gave of a lot of heat at the hand tool,and
very strenuos work.
regarding the concrete, he tells me that it will clean off
surface dirt with ease, especially chewing gum etc.
however if the dirt is in a porous  stone like sandstone etc
it will only remove it down to a couple of millimetres
hope this helps.
andrew