Rebuild a Mountain Lion Laptop with no CD

Hi All
Last year I put on Mountian Lion for my sins. As you know it only comes as an App. I now need to rebuild the laptop scrubbing the hard drive completely. Once that is done so nothing can be recovered how am i going to put Mountain Lion back on?
Any ideas?

HI Varjak Paw
Thank you for this advice I shall follow it through and see what happens. I think it is rather complicated and why they cannot just provide a CD making it esier I do not know. I would happily pay more to save having to use up USB stick as they do not fit in my CD OS box.
Thank you again and for your quick response.
Kind regards
Robert Mellors

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