[AT] Sandblasting safety

[Mark Greer]

I hope you did get paid well for your time and trouble to make his point.
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sandblasting safety


> 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>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Sandblasting safety
>
>
> > 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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> > From: <ROBBRUT at aol.com>
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> > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 5:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Sandblasting safety
> >
> >
> >> 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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