Dry Ice Blasting

[pepsi-perk]

Had a demo at work from some guy with a machine that grinds dry ice and blasts it out of a fine nozzle at the speed of mach II.   That thing will take off glue, labels, old grim and stuff real nice.  Tried it out on some steel shelves and steel cap catcher.  Took the scaling off, but didn't do much for the finish of the metal.    It'd be nice to have at work to sneak in my parts once in a while...at $25K I know I am not going to be buying one for my garage any time soon!

[Creighton]

25K ouch!! What do you think about baking soda blasting?
Thanks!!
Creighton

[pepsi-perk]

From what I have seen - soda blasting is pretty effective at cleaning stuff up, but I have no personal experience with it.  I would imagine it would make a mess from all the byproduct sprayed all over.  That's what was nice with the dry ice...it just vaporized.  No clean up except for the debris that was blasted off.

[Crazzy Canuck]

I've used soda, sand and nut shells. The nut shells did a real nice job