At least half the systems we make are designed around customers' specific process needs. This section is specifically for those unique machines that we have custom manufactured for our clientele.

 

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HYDRO-HONE WET BLAST PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CLEANER

This machine is designed to clean printed circuit boards up to 24" x 24" on a continuous in-line conveyor system. The cleaning rate is eight square feet per minute.

Both sides of the board are cleaned at the same time. Four oscillating blast guns on each side of the board clean the surface and through the holes as the board is conveyed past the guns. The board is then fresh water rinsed and stacked for further processing.

This process cuts rejects dramatically by removing burrs and fiberglass inclusions in the holes.

AUTOMATED TURNTABLE BLAST CLEANER

Here’s a versatile machine originally made for Owens Illinois Glass to clean their glass bottle molds. Parts are placed on a moving turntable, which moves them past 6 oscillating blast guns. A hand-blast station was included for touching up stubborn spots.

It uses all types and sizes of abrasives from the finest glass beads -- up through the various sizes of aluminum oxide abrasives -- to steel shot. With a cleaning speed of up to 10 sq. ft. per minute, the automated turntable blast cleaner cut their cleaning time from 20 minutes per unit down to 4 minutes.

INLINE FOIL BLASTING SYSTEM

The customer was developing an experimental material. They needed to continuously surface-prep long rolls of an exotic metal foil without scratching the foil, removing excessive material, or contaminating it with certain types of ions. The foil had to emerge scrupulously clean and dry.

Since the process conditions were not yet fully determined, the system would need to be multiply re-configurable. To top it off, there could be no discharge of wastewater or airborne mist outside the system. The abrasive being used was too fine for conventional filtration and the system needed to be fully automated, all stainless-steel and UL-Certified.... No Problem!

Process engineers chose a custom-tailored stainless steel ICM Hydro-Hone Slurry Blaster for the core system. All ferrous and cupric metal components were eliminated. The system was configured with special foil-handling modifications. Two banks of boron carbide blast-guns riding on variable-speed, variable-stroke oscillator arms; a mist cyclone and an integrated slurry sampling station completed the basic Blast Unit.

Passing between triple squeegee banks, the foil emerges into a recirculating "drench station," where it passes between dual laser-drilled spray manifolds for a first rinse. Abrasive drag-out from the blast process is removed, captured and recycled into the Blast Unit's slurry hopper, and the foil passes between another set of squeegees, into the final rinse.

The final rinse uses a hydrocyclone vortex system to capture and remove abrasive particles down to colloidal size, leaving crystal-clear rinse water, which is pumped through quad laser-drilled spray manifolds to scour the foil. The sparkling clean foil passes between quad hot air knives to be blown dry and emerges, burnished, into the light of day.