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[Sailorsaint]

I understand the reticence of not wanting to leave your home but, russia is/has destroyed your infrastructure and past experience shows they won’t stop there. If you have children, get the hell out. You’re only making the soldiers jobs harder.

 

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[SamAndreas]

I used to have to fix needle guns for 'hull technicians,' we call them deck seamen.



A needle gun is a compressed air thing used to remove rust, before repainting the hull. On a ship the size of the Eisenhower I would think 50 of them could paint and then repaint about the time their first coat of paint was done for. 50 painting the hull from the inside all the time. A never ending job, never quite completed.

Nor are the needle guns ever all ready to go at the same time. I was doing pretty good to keep a dozen out of the 24 going at any one time. PARTS! Never enough parts.

 

[Crawdaddys]

I used to have to fix needle guns for 'hull technicians,' we call them deck seamen.



A needle gun is a compressed air thing used to remove rust, before repainting the hull. On a ship the size of the Eisenhower I would think 50 of them could paint and then repaint about the time their first coat of paint was done for. 50 painting the hull from the inside all the time. A never ending job, never quite completed.

Nor are the needle guns ever all ready to go at the same time. I was doing pretty good to keep a dozen out of the 24 going at any one time. PARTS! Never enough parts.

I was a Boatswain Mate on the USS Santa Barbara stationed in Goose Creek SC. A Pnuemtic needle gun is not used to remove "rust". It;s used to remove old paint. And there is no 1st coat of paint. 1. Needle gun 2. Sander. 3. Primer. 4 1st and only coat of "haze gray"

 

[SamAndreas]

I was a Boatswain Mate on the USS Santa Barbara stationed in Goose Creek SC. A Pnuemtic needle gun is not used to remove "rust". It;s used to remove old paint. And there is no 1st coat of paint. 1. Needle gun 2. Sander. 3. Primer. 4 1st and only coat of "haze gray"

Yeah it's better to not pile up the paint. Paint burns too hot.

I sure saw a whole lot of rust being removed with needle guns. Especially in the corners. A hole lot of paint as well.

Right now I'm rebuilding two Ford tractors with my neighbor. One is mine and one is his. I'm using Lye in a boiling dip tank for all of the smaller parts of both tractors. MIne is a late 1940's 8N. His is a somewhat larger 641 from the 1950's. It's not important. we're just having fun in the old man way. Puttering together on something.

For the larger frame parts we're using a fine needle gun, and rotary wire brushes. Later I will sandblast the stubborn spots.

I like the way Lye will reduce the rust if one boiles it over and over again in very stout mixtures of water and Lye, pluss scrafical light metals. It chemically reduces the rust with the aluminum and zinc I throw in to boil it with it gets somewhat shiny coated. kind of galvanized like which paint will stick to if one hot water scrubs and rinses it well after using laundry soap with hot water. Lot of soap and hot water helps paint to stick well.

In a 15 gal tank which is heated by a three burner Coleman camp stove which burns white gas, I throw in one pound of 85% Lye, and about one ounce of zinc and two ounces of soft aluminum.

If I have it, I give it a bit of Magnesium casting metal as well. Not a lot, and not large pieces. Right now I have some from an old outboard motor. Those metals are sacrificial, they power a chemical reaction which reduces the rust back into elemental iron. After three or four hours of boiling the sacrificial metal will be dissolved down to little pieces at the bottom of the tank.

I boil the parts for four hours and then allow them to cool down overnight, then drain the tank and wash and rinse the parts.

 

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[SamAndreas]

Oh, deer, this has really got them fuming upset.

Blowing up their distilleries. Where they make their Vodka. Oh, deer.

 

[Sailorsaint]

I used to have to fix needle guns for 'hull technicians,' we call them deck seamen.



A needle gun is a compressed air thing used to remove rust, before repainting the hull. On a ship the size of the Eisenhower I would think 50 of them could paint and then repaint about the time their first coat of paint was done for. 50 painting the hull from the inside all the time. A never ending job, never quite completed.

Nor are the needle guns ever all ready to go at the same time. I was doing pretty good to keep a dozen out of the 24 going at any one time. PARTS! Never enough parts.

I was a Boatswain Mate on the USS Santa Barbara stationed in Goose Creek SC. A Pnuemtic needle gun is not used to remove "rust". It;s used to remove old paint. And there is no 1st coat of paint. 1. Needle gun 2. Sander. 3. Primer. 4 1st and only coat of "haze gray"

You guys bringing back some memories.....needle guns, red lead, and using chipping hammers up on the mast...when I think I miss the Navy, I just have to remember all that...

 

[SamAndreas]

You guys bringing back some memories.....needle guns, red lead, and using chipping hammers up on the mast...when I think I miss the Navy, I just have to remember all that...

I'll tell you about a memory I have of one ship where the chief mate would occasionally drop down into the engine room and ask if we had any waste oil tanks which needed to be cleaned out. We had four waste oil tanks, about a thousand gallons each.

When he did that he would alway have a couple deck sailors on his mind who he thought would be useful for cleaning out a tank like that, if say we needed one to be cleaned out.

We'd say sure, sent them down, and would then have them pull the deck plates and open the man hatches into the tank.

They'd wade around in the waste oil in hip waders for a while, and perhaps scoop up some muck from the bottom of the tank.

Then we'd have them close it up and put back the deck plates. We'd keep them at it for about 4 hours, then let them go. Few ever came back for second session in the depths of a waste oil tank.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Where are the 659,220 sets of parents? I generally hate to paint entire national populations with a broad negative brush, but I make an exception for Russians now. F them all.

 

[DaveXA]

Where are the 659,220 sets of parents? I generally hate to paint entire national populations with a broad negative brush, but I make an exception for Russians now. F them all.

That many parents losing their kids in what Poots refuses to outright call a war sit back and accept what's happened to their kids is maddening. I'd totally be at the White House gates protesting if we were doing this.

 

[Sailorsaint]

That many parents losing their kids in what Poots refuses to outright call a war sit back and accept what's happened to their kids is maddening. I'd totally be at the White House gates protesting if we were doing this.

Yeh but, as of now, you wouldn’t be arrested for protesting. Not that I’m giving them a pass, the problem is that most of the deaths are from the poor sections of russia and they really don’t have a voice. When sons, daughters, and parents from St Pete and Moscow start dying in large numbers, maybe they will protest. Not really counting on it though.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Yeh but, as of now, you wouldn’t be arrested for protesting. Not that I’m giving them a pass, the problem is that most of the deaths are from the poor sections of russia and they really don’t have a voice. When sons, daughters, and parents from St Pete and Moscow start dying in large numbers, maybe they will protest. Not really counting on it though.

I hear you but in the age of social media, I’m not giving them a pass.

 

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