[Rhodes22-list] Dry Ice Blasting

Brad Haslett flybrad at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 14:40:08 EDT 2007


During a layover this week I had the TV on for background noise and a
program on 'dry ice blasting' came on.  Basically, they use pelleted dry ice
(CO2) in instead of sand or soda.  The CO2 removes the bad stuff and doesn't
harm the underlying surface.  As a demo, they removed mold off of an antique
book without damaging the cover.  I could benefit from this right now on my
airplane and the uses on a sailboat are endless.  Does anyone on 'da list'
have any experience with this technology?  I checked on equipment and
services today and the equipment starts out at $7500 and the cheapest local
services was $150 per hour.  If I value my time at $3 per hour, it would be
a bargain compared to mineral spirits, tooth brushes, chop sticks, and my
Mexican friend "Manual Labor", plus the mess of conventional means. the
Who among you knows?

Brad


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