WASP takes the sting out of wheel stripping

Author:  News Release from Vapormatt
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 8 / Issue 4, Winter 1994/95
Doc ID:  1994053
Year of Publication:  1994
Abstract:  
Major commercial airlines and the RAF were represented at a recently UK seminar outlining Vapormatt's water assisted stripping process, known as WASP. The RAF, the United States Air Force, and the Danish Air Force are already using the process to strip aircraft wheels; South African Airways are using the WASP to clean undercarriage components as well as wheels; and Monarch Airlines have ordered a system. The principle of the system, which was developed to overcome environmental and other problems associated with dry stripping, is to direct a jet of hot water, mixed with detergent and minute plastic particles, or media, at the component to be cleaned. The scrubbing effect can access even the most difficult crevices.