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Laser cleaning

Using the example of a door of a Peugeot 404 Cabriolet

In the classic car business, cleaning metal sheets, engine parts, entire engines, engine compartments, underbodies and the like is part of everyday work. Removing decades of dirt is usually a laborious, time-consuming and nerve-wracking affair. Not to mention the many, many hours of work during which no real repairs are actually carried out.

Such work is usually done manually with scrapers, chemicals and rags. Larger areas are often blasted with sand and larger areas that need to be treated gently have been blasted with glass beads or dry ice for a decade or two. However, steel processes are always associated with a lot of dust and noise.

There is now a new process, laser cleaning. A clean and considerably quieter process than blasting. You can clean almost anything with the laser and usually you don’t have to shield adjacent surfaces. Even if the laser accidentally hits the windshield, nothing will happen to the glass. It is therefore a very material-friendly process. Since professional laser cleaning machines can quickly cost large six-figure sums, individual workshops cannot afford it.

We are now working with the company AA-Laserreinigung. The process is ideal for removing paint from metal before repainting; even thick filler residues are removed by the laser. To test this, we had an extremely thickly filled door of a Peugeot 404 Cabriolet cleaned with the laser. This door had filler thicknesses of 8 mm in places and the laser still cleaned the metal thoroughly. An incredible process. See for yourself here.

From now on we can offer you deep, gentle cleaning of sheet metal, engine compartments, engines, transmissions, axles and much more. If necessary, even on site in our workshop, because AA Laser Cleaning also has a mobile machine and comes to us with it.

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