Cleaning Paint Jigs 1

[Manfreds2]

Anyone have any ideas on how to clean paint jigs used in automotive paint booths?

I'm open to all ideas. Current way includes 36,000psi water spray and it destoys the jigs.

Thanks!

 

[DesignerGuy16]

If you're tearing up aluminum, can you change your jig material to something a little more robust, like a stainless steel or something? Or even make the critical parts out of stainless and keep the base aluminum. Then have those parts removed for cleaning instead of doing the whole jig.

The one e-coat paint line I did in a previous life, the hanging fixtures were just plain old carbon steel that going through the dip tank would build up over time. They essentially had a whole second set of hangers, and would swap them out as they built up. I believe they used sand blasting or a furnace to remove any build-up.

James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP

 

[Manfreds2]

Thanks for all the information. I've taken notes all on the ideas posted up here and are researching them. They all have their pros/cons.

 

[NomLaser]

What about coating them in Teflon? We did this at a company that I worked for in the past for potting molds and it worked great. You could take a plastic scraper and just knock off anything that dried or got stuck to it (which didn't happen often).