Component Rebuild Centers (CRC)

Sponge-Jet enables heavy equipment rebuilders to clean parts faster and with better quality, resulting in reduced disassembly time and like-new paint finishes on refurbished components.  The improved surface preparation and resulting coating benefits reinforces the overall quality associated with a certified rebuild.

Sponge-Jet Custom Integrations eliminate many of the problems caused by ordinary cleaning systems and abrasive grit blast rooms. All solutions provide simplicity, consistency and efficiency. This waterless, environmentally friendly process requires less capital investment, less system maintenance, and less ongoing operational costs than competitive industrial solutions.

Features & Benefits

  • Effectively remove grease, oil and dirt
  • Clean exterior parts the first time
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Cuts down on the secondary hand-cleaning of components
  • Efficient enough to produce a clean surface to repaint
  • Enhances the look of the final product
  • Work adjacent to mechanical assemblies, rotating equipment and electronic devices
  • Spend less on media handling and conveying
  • No reclamation augers, mechanical buckets, or conveyors
  • Simple, low maintenance vacuum recovery solutions
  • Reduce H/VAC costs by HEPA filtered recirculating air
  • New blast rooms can be built for a fraction of the cost of conventional blast rooms
  • Existing blast rooms can be easily converted
  • Allows for precision cleaning, touch-up and controlled feathering of existing coating

  • Cleaner Bolt Heads

    This heavy equipment rebuild center uses Sponge Media™ to reduce disassembly time by completely clearing bolt heads of paint, grease, and grime. This allows wrenches to fit fully into the bolt head; proper tool engagement reduces rounding of bolt head, snapping bolts off and stripping threads.

  • Remove Grease and Oils

    Blasting with Sponge Media™ gives manufacturers an advantage over cleaning oily and thick, greasy surfaces. As other abrasive technologies spread oil and/or grease contaminants around the surface. Sponge Media removes them, leaving a clean (paint-ready) substrate.

  • Media Choice

    Silver 80 Sponge Media™ was selected by a large construction equipment dealer in Mexico to prepare new and refurbished parts for coatings; selection was based on the ability to provide one-step cleaning and removal of weld oxidation and silicates; achieved profile ±50μ (±2mil).

  • Reduce Grit Intrusion

    An aerial lift manufacturer switched to a Sponge-Jet Integrated System for surface preparation in their equipment reconditioning division. Steel grit was migrating into motors and causing premature failure. The switch to Silver 30 Sponge Media™ (±75μ (±3mils) saved significant time by not requiring disassembly of each lift.

  • Better Surface to Paint

    Final coatings look as good as new without paint layers showing; this helps reinforce the high quality of the rebuild as perceived by the customer.

  • Tough On Coatings, Not Equipment

    No other single process is as effective at cleaning and removing paint without damaging equipment

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Resources

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Resources

  • Typical Sponge-Jet Cleaning Room Layout

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  • Sponge-Jet Engine and Component Cleaning and De-painting

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  • Sponge-Jet Introductory Brochure

    PDF document shows how Sponge-Jet’s abrasive blasting technology protects worker health and the en…

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  • Component Rebuild Center (CRC) Overview

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