SV: [AT] Sandblasting safety

Mattias Kessén mattias at linderson-mark-bygg.se
Mon Jan 9 05:38:18 PST 2006


Did you say you were there for arc-welding?

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I forgot to mention that the blasting was to take place with the transformer
in place and the whole substation including the tranfromer hot!

Charlie

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From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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> Yeah I figured it was a pretty expensive proposition Bruce.  Not something
> that many folks would ever see.
>
> I once went to Kitty Hawk, NC to look at a blasting job for Virginia
> Electric Power.  When I got to the location it was a sub station about 100
> yards from the ocean.  The wind was blowing on shore and you could feel
> the salt in the air.  The guy took us into an energized substation to look
> at a fin-tubed transformer.  The primaries were about 5 feet above our
> heads.  He wanted me to give him a price to blast the fins with walnut
> shells to white metal, then apply a 3 coat epoxy, urethane system.  The
> fins were about 1 1/2" apart.  I told him he was out of his mind and
> walked out.
>
> I found out later that he was supposedly one of the world experts on metal
> corrosion control and a frequent contributor of tech articles for SSPC.
> He was upset at the equipment manufacturer (who was there with him) for
> not coating the transformer according to specs and he had used us to make
> his point.  It was a 7 hour round trip for me and another guy.  I wasn't
> happy.
>
> Charlie
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>
>> Charlie-
>>
>> I've used dry ice (pellets and fractured) but didn't memtion them for two
>> reasons: the equipment costs are prohibitive and the process is not good
>> on thin
>> skins.
>>
>> -Bruce
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