[AT] Sandblasting safety

[charlie hill]

Didn't get a cent.  Just a lost day for 2 guys  and some gasoline and wear 
on my truck.  What happened was a paint sales rep who at the time sent us a 
lot of work told us about this job.  I think he got taken in also.  We went 
up there thinking we were going to bid on a very nice and profitable job. 
It's not the first time something like that has happened and it won't be the 
last.  It was just one of the most dramatic.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Greer" <greerfam at raex.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sandblasting safety


>I hope you did get paid well for your time and trouble to make his point.
> Mark
>
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> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:35 AM
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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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