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Water Tanks

February 10, 2006
10:24 AM

demobud

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Robert Kulinski said:
The only pisser was that the internal portions of the tank were coated by an elastomeric coating (basically tar) which diminished the value of the steel by 80%

Yeah, that stuff is nasty especially if you have to rig a tank down. That mess will get all over you.

February 10, 2006
8:10 AM

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No, no not New Jersey Surprised . Who needs the aggravation of working in that state? Heck, you get fined by the DOL before you even start the job! Their blasting air overpressure/noise thresholds are slightly less than that generated by rabbit flatulence.

February 10, 2006
6:33 AM

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So where are you hanging your hat these days Robert?

I bid a couple of water tanks up in Jersey not long ago, same job?

February 9, 2006
9:31 PM

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Everything went really well. I didn't use shaped charges because the steel was corroded to the point that we couldn't do any preburning except for cutting out the standpipe. So I had to bulk it which every blaster is loathe to do because of the potential for fly. Thankfully, there was nothing around for several hundred meters in every direction. I used a binary explosive that worked like a champ.
The only pisser was that the internal portions of the tank were coated by an elastomeric coating (basically tar) which diminished the value of the steel by 80%

February 9, 2006
5:40 PM

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