Road Marking & Transport Infrastructure Ultrasonic Cleaning Australia

The Contamination Problem

What we remove in road marking & transport

Cured line-marking paint

Waterborne and solvent-borne film set hard through tips, guards, seats and gun filters.

Thermoplastic & cold-applied plastic

Set in applicator shoes, dies and screed hardware the moment the machine stops hot.

Glass bead residue

Packed into dispensers, hoppers and delivery nozzles, where it quietly changes the spread pattern.

Bitumen, tack coat & sealant

Off crack-sealing and spray-seal hardware without a drum of solvent and a wire brush.

Road grime, salt & traffic film

On roadside cabinets, sensor mounts and mounting hardware coming back for refurbishment.

The endpoint is a defined, repeatable process condition — cycle time, chemistry, concentration, frequency and temperature are recorded parameters, not operator judgement.

Trial Evidence

Line-marking hardware, before and after

Spray tips, guards, seats and gun filters off working line-marking equipment, photographed as received and after a documented cycle. Drag the handle across to compare.

Tip seat bore. Paint filling the seat bore, which is exactly where a tip stops sealing. Recovered rather than replaced.

Same trials, photographed separately

Airless tip and guard — before and after ultrasonic cleaning — as received — As received

Airless tip and guard — before and after ultrasonic cleaning — after the cycle — After cycle

Airless tip and guard. Dried paint locking the guard and the tip together. Cleaned as an assembly, without dismantling.

Gun filter sleeve — before and after ultrasonic cleaning — as received — As received

Gun filter sleeve — before and after ultrasonic cleaning — after the cycle — After cycle

Gun filter sleeve. Every slot blinded on the left. Filter elements are the most replaceable part on a marking rig, and the most worth recovering.

Tip thread and seat — before and after ultrasonic cleaning — as received — As received

Tip thread and seat — before and after ultrasonic cleaning — after the cycle — After cycle

Tip thread and seat. Thread and seat together — both surfaces have to be clean for the tip to sit true.

Components We Clean

Real parts, real materials

Marking guns & tips

Airless tips, tip guards, seats, threads and gun filter sleeves — paint out of the orifice without anything mechanical touching the carbide.

TipsGuardsGun filters

Paint handling

Pumps, manifolds, strainers, agitator hardware and the fittings between the drum and the gun.

PumpsManifoldsStrainers

Rig & roadside hardware

Bead dispensers, applicator shoes, sensor mounts and cabinet fittings on refurbishment.

Bead dispensersShoesMounts

Why Ultrasonics — And Why These Machines

Cavitation cleans geometry it cannot see

Bubble collapse at the liquid–metal boundary lifts contamination from passages, galleries and cavities without anything touching the surface. Nothing abrades, nothing embeds, no metal is removed.

GeneratorResonance held all shift

The VarioSonic G5 tracks the transducer array as temperature and load shift — conversion efficiency up to 95%.

Sound fieldSweep modulation

Eliminates standing-wave hot and cold zones across a loaded basket.

Process controlLogged, recipe-driven cycles

Stored recipes and logged cycles — audit evidence produced as a by-product of running.

Bath conditionFiltration & oil separation

Multi-stage filtration and weir oil capture hold results steady as the bath loads.

SupportOver-the-air diagnostics

Most faults identified — many resolved — without a site visit.

ConstructionBuilt to work hard

Heavy 316 stainless tanks, tested before despatch, every wearing part replaceable.

Equipment Fit

The machine follows the process

From manually loaded single-tank units to automated lines — and engineered systems where the catalogue ends.

Powersonic

Bench units for tip, guard and filter recovery in a depot store.

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MSX

Workshop platforms for whole-rig hardware, batched a week at a time.

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Chemistry

Matched to the soil and the substrate

Cured paint, thermoplastic and bitumen each need different chemistry, and the tip you are trying to save is usually carbide in a stainless carrier. The chemistry is matched to the coating and then checked against the substrate — confirmed on your own hardware before anyone quotes a machine.

Applications Matrix

Component coverage at a glance

Component category	Specific parts / assemblies	Compatible materials
Line marking	Tips, guards, seats, gun filters	Stainless, tungsten carbide, brass
Paint handling	Pumps, manifolds, strainers, fittings	Steels, stainless, polymers
Thermoplastic	Applicator shoes, dies, screeds	Steels, cast iron
Bead systems	Dispensers, hoppers, nozzles	Stainless, aluminium
Roadside assets	Sensor mounts, cabinet hardware	Aluminium, plated steel

Prove it on your parts

Where an application needs validation, we clean sample components in our laboratory, document the result, and specify the machine around the verified process. If ultrasonics is the wrong answer, the trial shows that too, and we will tell you.

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FAQ

What road authorities and line-markers ask us

Is a blocked tip worth recovering, or is it just scrap?

A tip is a carbide orifice in a metal carrier, and the carbide is not what blocks — the paint is. If the orifice is not worn, cleaning puts the tip back on the gun. Wear scraps a tip; paint does not.

Will it damage the orifice?

Cavitation removes what is sitting on a surface without cutting the surface. That is exactly why it suits carbide orifices, where anything mechanical changes the spray pattern permanently.

We run thermoplastic, not paint. Does that come off?

Yes, with the chemistry and temperature matched to the polymer. Thermoplastic is a harder job than waterborne paint and takes longer — which is what the trial is for.

Can this run at a depot rather than a workshop?

A bench unit sits in a depot store and runs off a standard outlet. Larger fleets put a workshop platform in and batch a week of hardware at a time.

Ultrasonic Cleaning for Road Marking & Transport Infrastructure