Dry Ice Cleaning

[Irace86.2.0]

Sorry if this magic is a repost.

[spcmafia]

Funny, I was mentioning this to someone else in another thread about using it to clean rust and dirt from his calipers. Dry Ice Cleaning is awesome, expensive, but awesome.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Funny, I was mentioning this to someone else in another thread about using it to clean rust and dirt from his calipers. Dry Ice Cleaning is awesome, expensive, but awesome.

Dry ice blasting will only remove very light surface rust. We use it on our equipment here on a regular basis. Really great for surface cleaning but need to get into heavier materials such as soda blasting to get anything that is really stuck on.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Dry ice blasting will only remove very light surface rust. We use it on our equipment here on a regular basis. Really great for surface cleaning but need to get into heavier materials such as soda blasting to get anything that is really stuck on.

Do you guys use Coca Cola or Pepsi for Soda blasting.



I believe Dry Ice won't help with serious pitting and heavy corrosion. Another cool cleaning technique is laser, but that is still expensive and not quite as efficient from the videos I've seen.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Do you guys use Coca Cola or Pepsi for Soda blasting.



I believe Dry Ice won't help with serious pitting and heavy corrosion. Another cool cleaning technique is laser, but that is still expensive and not quite as efficient from the videos I've seen.

This is Canada so that would be called pop blasting not soda!

Doesn't have to be serious pitting. Anything actually bonded to the material being cleaned won't even be touched. You could see that when he did the top of the one pan in the video since there were a couple of spots that never even changed. That is the beauty of dry ice blasting since it takes off the surface without damaging or removing any of the base. To get heavier stuff off you need to take off a layer of the base material and there is no getting around that.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

This is Canada so that would be called pop blasting not soda!

Doesn't have to be serious pitting. Anything actually bonded to the material being cleaned won't even be touched. You could see that when he did the top of the one pan in the video since there were a couple of spots that never even changed. That is the beauty of dry ice blasting since it takes off the surface without damaging or removing any of the base. To get heavier stuff off you need to take off a layer of the base material and there is no getting around that.

So you guys just blast materials with Britney Spears "Toxic"?



I checked around my area and surprisingly no one in my state does it. One shop supplies it, but none advertise usage.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

So you guys just blast materials with Britney Spears "Toxic"?



I checked around my area and surprisingly no one in my state does it. One shop supplies it, but none advertise usage.

The guys that do our equipment have to come over from Michigan. It is not real common.

[bcj]

I've heard most about it for knocking mold off of plywood in home interiors.
Doesn't blow holes through your exterior siding as often as other methods.

[Decep]

Oof, my pipi. That is a nice freakin car.

[saltywetman]

it's best used to prep the underbody for a long lasting undercoat for rust protection like honeywax seal. but the results are sweet for the OCD. I have some pictures in my journal the shop sent me with before and after https://www.ft86club.com/forums/show...1&postcount=32