| Product |
Pros |
Cons |
| Seneca Systems™ Millennium 2000 Stripping trays &
Water Rinse Booth |
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Exceed OSHA regulations for Methylene Chloride
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Continue to use Methylene Chloride
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Product of thirty years experience manufacturing OSHA compliant systems
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- Capital cost
- Exhausts high volume of air
- Need for make-up system
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| Clear Choice™ Furniture Stripping equipment |
- Low capital cost for starting a new business
- complete stripping system package
- For use with S-510 & S-515 (Clear Choice I)
- For use with S-103 (Clear Choice II)
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| Seneca Systems™
Solvent S-510 &
Solvent S-515
|
- Use existing equipment
- Non-Methylene Chloride
- Safer, effective
- No wax, no caustic, no water rinse necessary
- No new capital expense
- Less expensive than Methylene Chloride per unit stripping (up to $200 in stripping per gallon)
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- High initial cost per gallon
- Slower than Methylene Chloride
- Longer drying times (which could be helped with infra-red heaters)
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| Seneca Systems™ Solvent S-103 |
- Non-Methylene Chloride
- Safer, effective
- Fast stripping rate
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- Flammable
- Requires explosion proof lighting, fans, pump in stripping area
- Water rinse
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| CHEM-CLEAN® Furniture Stripping Systems |
- High production, Labor efficient
- Non-Methylene Chloride
- Solvents low cost per gallon
- No wax, no caustic or water ever used
- Sludge reduction and solvent recovery systems
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- High Capital cost
- Flammable solvent
- Explosion Proof wiring needed for stripping area
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