POLARJET Dry Ice Machine for Cleaning Cars

[David Fermani]

polarjet einfach. schnell. sauber. (http://www.polarjet.ch/)



Pretty interesting new technology that a friend of mine told me about. He just purchased one and is raving about how great it is and that he prefers it to steamers.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7uDPQqQpmQ

[Ron Ketcham]

polarjet einfach. schnell. sauber. (http://www.polarjet.ch/)



Pretty interesting new technology that a friend of mine told me about. He just purchased one and is raving about how great it is and that he prefers it to steamers.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7uDPQqQpmQ

"It`s back", this system has been promoted several times over the past 15 years. First saw it at ICA, at least 15 years ago, no matter what someone may say.

[David Fermani]

What did you think of it Ron & how is it different/better than a traditional steamer?

[C. Charles Hahn]

Paul Dalton uses one of those as well, or at least did at one time....




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5Rsz4oveE

[LilJayV10]

I wonder how many thousands of dollars that thing is.

[RToth]

We have a big one we use at work for cleaning machinery, they just got it a few months ago that thing is amazing! It was originally purchased to clean some new cup lip rolling screws for the new machines we got but have since been used for complete cleaning for thermorming machines and now this week and next week we will be using it for cleaning up all of our extrusion sheetlines to remove all the grease, plastic condensation oil, and bubbled paint so we can skin it all with stainless. With how good that one works with the nasty stuff we use it for I would imagine a small one like this would work wonders on a car. You would never be able to use ours on a car though, it would literally rip a hole right through the dash. The main problem I see with this setup is that you also have to source a local supplier of dry ice, of course the smaller amount ordered would be a higher price, and you can`t order too much or it will evaporate before you get a chance to use it. We have had that happen a few times, we order it in large coolers, I would guess around 200lbs or so all in pellets. A few times we didn`t use it for a couple days and when we opened it up there was a brick in there about half the size that it originally was.



The thing is pretty cool to use, but I just don`t see it being worth the price (unless it was dirt cheap....) for anything other then a high volume shop that is very concerned with water usage.

[David Fermani]

Good info. Looks like another reason to go with Steam?

[pixelmonkey]

You would never be able to use ours on a car though, it would literally rip a hole right through the dash. The main problem I see with this setup is that you also have to source a local supplier of dry ice



both of those issues are solved with something like the following unit.



ColdJet SDI Select/en/ (http://www.coldjet.com/minisites/sdi-select/en/)



been looking at these for the last couple years and this new model will take any size dry ice chunk and grind it down to what size is needed for your pressure.



chris<pixelmonkey>:D

[RToth]

That looks pretty interesting, definitely makes that smaller blaster easier to use since you don`t have to worry about finding ice for it, but it is another likely huge added expense. Don`t get me wrong, I would absolutely love to have one of these knowing first hand how good they clean the stuff where I work, but there is just no way it would be worth it for me. Either way though, the blaster we use is way to big to use on a car, takes a 1" air line and when you squeeze the trigger it will literally throw you off balance if not careful :lol: