Dry ice blasting
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Dry ice blasting is the use of the solid form of carbon dioxide ("dry ice") as an abrasive blasting medium. | Dry ice blasting is the use of the solid form of carbon dioxide ("dry ice") as an abrasive blasting medium. | ||
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| + | Because of the prohibitive cost of dry ice blasting, it's simply not currently economically justifiable for stripping paint from body panels. | ||
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| + | The main advantage of dry ice is that it doesn't leave any residue, because dry ice sublimates at room temperature. It's a relatively mild blasting media, used for cleaning electric motors and other delicate parts where the introduction of blasting media could be disadvantageous. Dry ice does not leave an anchor pattern. | ||
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| + | ==Videos== | ||
| + | *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9nITRz--0&feature=related Video of dry ice blasting removing paint from a vehicle] | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
| + | *http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/once-all-wiki-soda-blasting-162700-3.html | ||
| + | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_ice_blasting | ||
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| + | ==Related== | ||
| + | [[Media blasting]] | ||
| + | [[Soda blasting]] | ||
| + | [[Sandblasting]] | ||
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