South Australian-based Complete Spray Booth Services has unveiled its Complete Refinish System, delivering repairers greater efficiencies.
The new system features a negative pressure system along with integrated infrared heating in the booth,
allowing tecchnicians to prepare and paint a vehicle in the same area, thereby reducing vehicle movements around the workshop.
“We’re excited and a little nervous about lifting the lid on this product. We’ve had enough sales of the CRS to keep us busy but we believe we’re to the point that we can readily expand sales and the business to suit,” CSBS’s Craig Easton said.
Easton believes the key componenet that makes the system so innovative is the ability to prepare and paint in the same area.
The CRS works on an entirely negative pressure system; like working in a giant vacuum cleaner where all the dust is sucked into the booth floor.
The negative pressure means less air comes in than goes out, so dust, dirt, overspray and anything else in the booth’s atmosphere gets sucked directly into the floor grids.
“This is how you’re able to prep and paint in the same area,” Easton said. “Any time you move anything, you’ve just spent money and the biggest obstacle in every shop is moving cars. Cars can be moved 10 or more times in a shop before they’re ready to leave – if you spent two minutes per car, that’s 20 minutes you’ve wasted per car.
“The infrared systems within the booth just ramps the whole thing up another notch.
“Most IRT units are high density, short-wave but we utilise high density, medium wave infrared as it’s the only way to be sure you don’t get solvent boil in the paint and still get the heat into the panel. We’d expect good quality paints to be dry within five minutes and cured within 15 minutes of application.
“We also have specialised water-borne systems for those customers making the move. They can be retro fitted, meaning you don’t have to stick with the decision you make now.
Maintenance costs are down with this unit. With only one, albeit large, motor in the CRS, the big savings are in the burner maintenance, Easton says.
“Anyone who’s got a burner will tell you you’re always servicing them and having them checked” he said.
“Inlet filters are quick and easy to change, but without the high-speed air passing through them, the changeover requirements are way down.
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