Multiple chambers
Multiple chambers with variable pressure pumping, set up for the masks you run.
High Pressure Mask Washers & Deflash Systems Clean masks without solvents
Solventless mask and tool washers from 100 to 8,000 PSI, designed around your masks and fixtures, plus high pressure water deflash systems and caustic cleaning tanks.
Mask & tool washers
Washers designed to your needs
We design every tool and mask washer to the customer’s needs, with robotic or fixed nozzles and pressures from 100 to 8,000 PSI. Cleaning is solventless and damage-free, using heated, filtered water at pressure, so it is environmentally safe and keeps cycle times efficient.
Masking is where Met-L-Tec started, and our Mask & Tooling division still builds the masks and fixtures that washers like these clean. One team can supply the tooling and the machine that keeps it clean.
- 100 to 8,000 PSI
- Robotic or fixed nozzles
- Solventless and damage-free
- Designed around your masks and fixtures
Washer design
What goes into our washers
Damage-free, solvent-less and environmentally safe cleaning, with efficient cycle times.
Heated, filtered water
Water heating, debris removal and water filtering are built into the washer.
Carousel part transfer
A carousel moves masks and fixtures through the washer.
Adjustable mask holders
Holders adjust to take different masks and fixtures.
Vee Jet nozzles or robots
Reciprocating Vee Jet nozzles or robotic manipulation, matched to your parts.
Double-wall stainless
Self-contained machines in double-wall stainless steel construction.
Built for North American Lighting
Turnkey mask washer
An automatic high pressure mask washer we designed, built and delivered turnkey for North American Lighting.
- Type
- Automatic high pressure mask washer
- Cleaning chamber
- Four stations, accepts various mask and fixture sizes
- Nozzles
- Spiral headers with non-clogging Vee Jet nozzles
- Spray pressure
- Up to 225 PSI
- Heating
- Two 40 kW electric heaters
- Cleaning solution
- Challenge 4855
Our washers are designed to each customer’s needs, from 100 to 8,000 PSI.
Beyond mask washing
Deflash, caustic and CO₂ cleaning
Cleaning equipment for parts and tooling, built by the same team.
High pressure water deflash
Turnkey high pressure water deflash systems, built and pre-tested in our shop, then installed on site.
Caustic cleaning tanks
Caustic cleaning tanks, designed and built to your specifications.
CO₂ part cleaning
CO₂ part cleaning, available as an option on our turnkey systems.
Questions
Mask washer questions
What pressures do your mask washers run at?
We build mask washers from 100 to 8,000 PSI, matched to your masks and process. The turnkey washer we built for North American Lighting, for example, sprays up to 225 PSI through spiral headers with non-clogging Vee Jet nozzles.
Do your washers use solvents?
No. Our mask washers are solventless. They clean with heated, filtered water at pressure, with a cleaning solution where the process calls for one, such as the Challenge 4855 used on the North American Lighting washer.
Can a robot do the washing?
Yes. We build washers with fixed nozzles, reciprocating Vee Jet nozzles or robotic manipulation, and our electrical engineer programs FANUC robots in-house. Call (734) 847-7004 to talk through your masks.
Keep exploring
More from our machine department
Coating & Curing Systems
Turnkey color coat, hard coat, anti-haze, flow, dip and electrostatic coating lines, with flame and CO₂ pretreat and curing ovens.
Industrial Ovens
Batch and continuous curing and annealing ovens with UV, convection or IR heat, built and tested in our shop.
Robotics, Turntables & Conveyors
Robotic turntables, chain-on-edge, monorail and power and free conveyors, slide systems and robotic loading and unloading.