Greater Vancouver’s Laser Ablation Experts

This video demonstrates our 1000W 50mJ pulsed laser’s capabilities in removing NDT developper from cast stainless steel machinery.

Engineering firms, manufacturers, factories, machine shops and machine rebuilders often require NDT preparation. Coatings and contaminants need to be removed and cleaned off prior to non-destructive testing. Machinery often needs to be transported to sandblasting shops in order to have the work done. Rapidfire Laser Restorations can perform your rust removal, coatings removal, and contaminant removal on site.

Our latest laser rust removal project in Delta, British Columbia. The clients were excited to see what was going on, and asked if they could bring their engineers, millwrights, welders, machinists, plant managers, and reception out to see the light show. Rapidfire Laser has a handful of laser protective glasses for demonstration purposes, and we’re always happy to perform demonstrations and answer any questions.

This particular piece of rusted machinery was part of a rebuild project that required non-destructive testing prior to re-machining and rebuilding.

Rapidfire Laser was able to quickly deploy on site to remove the rust from the equipment. The clients were able reduce costs of tedious labor to pressure wash, as well as transportation costs normally associated with delivery to a sandblasting shop. Laser ablation is normally less expensive than sandblasting because we are mobile, use no consumables or chemicals, which keeps our costs down.

This is a laser cleaning demonstration on a painted motor mount. We are testing blue and white masking tape to see if they can protect the laser ablation from adjacent surfaces. Our laser was set at 50% of it’s 1000W capacity, and quickly ablated a small sample section. The blue and white masking tape samples are effective at protecting adjacent surfaces from the laser beam.

This sample was laser cleaned in Richmond, British Columbia.