Dry Ice Blasting Heavy Equipment Paint Booth
Heavy equipment paint and primer booth, seen here top side of plenum pit. 6 day job with three blasters using 12,000-13,000lbs of ice.
Top side had wide range of easy to difficult removal. Focus was any loose debris across all surfaces. Additionally mechanical and maintenance targets such as floor frame to ease grate removal, windows, and light housings.
Paint build up on the thick side popped nice, followed up with flat nozzles for tougher sections. Top side ran, 950cfm compressor, 2 blasters, ICS 410 and Aero 40 at 3.5-4.5lb min. 180psi. / 2 runs 150ft 1" Air Hose / 50ft 2" Air Hose / Each blaster 20ft Blast Hose
Removed over 2000lbs of debris between top side and pit.
What's the purpose of using dry ice?
It's a waterless process, so you only need to clean up what you're removing. The dry ice extreme temperature change makes the paint brittle, sublimates on impact and the big gas expansion from the sublimation kind of makes like little explosions that lift and it removes anything that's not the original material.
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation
wow thanks for the great explanation.
In this case water and or chemicals would pose risk to electronics or sensitive substrates. Additionally debris/slurry by product would be difficult to manage.
It’s cool
Great job! Love seeing dry ice jobs
Sitting here staring at a spreadsheet I am so jealous of this person's job.
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I’m gonna assume you or OP might be him and just giggle and go about my business. ⛷️
Thats half a years worth of CO2 released (for an american human)
How much for “non-american” human?
Germans its 7-10 tons and id guess for people in overpopulated poor places it might mbe way lower. I figured most people on reddit might resonate with the american average
How expensive is using this much dry ice? How cost effective is it?
Surely they would just booth coat all of that?
Wow ppe