HoldTight® leaves behind zero unwanted residue, and evaporates with the water, providing a surface that is thoroughly clean and flash rust-free for 24-72 hours or more to ensure a tightly adhered coating. Reduce the costs of maintenance, repainting, and surface preparation by using the industry’s most trusted salt remover and flash rust preventer.
HoldTight® is safe and effective on a wide variety of surfaces, delivering superior surface preparation, following dry, wet abrasive or ultra high-pressure blasting. HoldTight® 102 has proven results on land, at sea, on storage tanks, on bridges, on drilling rigs, on offshore production platforms and for specialty applications like restoring vintage cars.
It’s no secret that coatings last longer and perform better on a clean surface. Most cleaning methods, however, cause problems of their own. Dry blasting shatters the abrasive, rust and coating on the surface and leaves behind soluble salts. Wet abrasive blasting with untreated water causes flash rust. Some salt removers only remove a few salts, while replacing them with other salts and leaving behind an acidic, conductive residue.
HoldTight® 102 completely removes all salts, resulting in no conductivity. It also removes abrasives and debris from the surface’s profile, providing a better surface area to bond with coating. Since HoldTight® 102 leaves a clean, rust-free surface for up to 24 to 72 hours, large areas of structures can be blasted and cleaned completely before coating application, instead of having to be coated immediately after blasting every day.