Tag: Sandblasting
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Bad hair day in Journeyman land
Today has been full of bad news. Leak testing of the deck showed that ALL of the hatches were leaking. In the same spot. Not in the mounting, but through the hatch itself, due to a manufacturing error at the supplier. The leak in the ballast tank pumps that I wrote about yesterday was not…
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Blasted Topsides
There are some small and a couple of large deformations quite visible. But this will fade away as the metal oxidizes over the next year.
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Sandblast intermediate results…
The deck and cockpit is done. Tomorrow we start with the topsides. The untreated areas will be covered with anti-slip mat, so they don’t have to be done.
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Sand. 7 tons of it.
The parts of the decks that have already been done are now forming a nice sandy beach!! Talk about foredeck sunbathing :-) I really like the surface the sand creates. It’s very smooth, completely matte and yet shiny somehow…
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Having a Blast in the Snow
We’ve gotten the keel surface treatment going. Step 1 is sandblasting: The blasted steel has a beautiful surface actually. Smooth dark and extremely matte grey. Too bad I can’t keep it like that! When the sandblasting is done we have to paint the first ThorCoat layer very quickly, otherwise the steel will get oxidized and…