How To Increase Your Productivity As a Mechanic

Are you a mechanic that wants to increase your productivity? This blog will tell you how you can increase your productivity using a hydro blast, a soda blast, and a wet blast. 

Hydro Blast

Let us first look at how the hydro blast increases a mechanic’s productivity. The hydro blast is often called a mechanic’s best friend here because of how quickly it removes grease and oil from your parts. Our hydro blast units use pressurized hot water to clean your parts. This machine blasts at 1700 PSI (Hydro Blast) or 4000 PSI (Hydro Blast Max). With this high water pressure, you are able to blast an area once and rid it of any oil and grease. Due to this, the process is very quick at cleaning your parts. Since it is a quick clean, you also can get back to fixing or restoring cars sooner. Thus, increasing your turn over rate in your shop. 

An added benefit of the hydro blast is that it uses no abrasive. Therefore, you do not have to worry about rinsing out abrasives when you are done blasting. Eliminating this step saves you a ton of time that you can now use to restore more of your parts. This also removes the possibility of leaving abrasive in your parts, which can cause damage.

In Summary: A hydro blast uses heated high pressure water, with an optional detergent, to quickly clean your parts without abrasive. This allows you to quickly and safely process parts and increase your turn over rate.

Soda Blast

Moving on from the hydro blast, let us look at how soda blasting increases a mechanic’s productivity. Soda blasting is done using a combination of water, air, and soda. Similar to a hydro blast, soda blasting is great for cleaning your parts. However, since soda blasting uses an abrasive, it is slightly faster than a hydro blast. This is because soda adds grit to your machine so it hits the grime and pushes it off your parts faster. 

Despite soda having grit it will not finish your parts. This is because soda is too friable for it to have any sort of etching or smoothing capabilities on your part. 

However, unlike other abrasives, soda can dissolve in water and oil. Therefore, you do not have to worry about the abrasive getting stuck in your parts and blocking something important. Soda blast is slightly faster than a hydro blast at cleaning your parts due to the addition of abrasive, increasing a mechanic’s rate of productivity.

Wet Blast

A wet blasting system can also increase a mechanic’s productivity. A wet blast uses a combination of compressed air, water, and abrasive. Unlike the other two systems the abrasive in the wet blast will allow you to quickly polish and clean your parts. Therefore, you do two things at once, saving you a bunch of time. 

It is also fast because it cleans by flow, not impact. Meaning that the water cushions the abrasive allowing it to glide along the surface and use its characteristics. Clean by impact, only hits the surface and explodes. Therefore, you cover a lot more surface are in a shorter period of time with wet blasting. 

To make wet blasting quicker, you should pre-rinse your parts in the hydro blast. As mentioned above, the hydro blast will remove the majority of the grime off your parts. Therefore, all the wet blasting system has to do is polish your part. You do not have to do this though. A major benefit of a wet blasting machine is that it can be used as a parts washer and a surface finishing machine at the same time! This can save loads of time as a greasy, corroded part can be brought to polished metal in minutes.

While the wet blasting system is fast, you do have to spend some time ridding your parts of abrasive after blasting with this process. If you do not rid your part of abrasive it can cause serious damage to your part and affect the part’s functionality. A wet blasting system can both polish and finish your parts with its clean by flow nature saving you time.

Conclusion

A hydro blast uses high pressure water to clean your parts. Soda blasting will clean your parts slightly faster because of the addition of soda. As for the wet blasting system, it saves you the added step of using two machines, since it uses abrasive you can both clean and polish your parts. For more information on any of these blasting types, please contact us at (828) 202-5563.