[AT] Sandblasting safety

[charlie hill]

LMAO  I never thought about it that way Mattias but I guess we were.  It's a 
funny feeling walking into on of those substations and having the guy say 
"by the way.  The substation is hot.  Don't raise your hands above your 
head.".

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <mattias at linderson-mark-bygg.se>
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> 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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>> 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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