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COVBt THAT SURfACt Soak Up This.., flhfonpation Before Painting Your Plant "Savk the surface 4*4 yoo ! sir Is good advice, bat just fi** d "*j[ save ihe surface? For an *nitrer VS and other plant-painting question. ' 1 visited Art Cannon of Oliver R rvZ * & Sana, in Philadelphia, With jj mg crews about the country. An Css non is our leading industrial painty contractor. Regardless of who docs your Mjw` iog, you should know bow this topaoteK industrial specialist goes about a Then you will see thst painting ufcti plenty of knowhow. - .1 ItoH Meetings. An Cmnon ha^cufil meetings eoch month. Ills key meq fl;! In from the field. Sales, estimating, duction and testing personnel attend ; NET, woven to protect steom turbines, is Inspected--b--y---A--r-t---C--a--nnon. Ropes ore strong .An expert from at~ p1a.int manufa^cture'rA enough to support workmen, moterlols. This H otso good lnuonc ogolnst outage o*n*Ceounfrrroemnt 0jocbhse'amrieca'dlisficrums,sueod,r laa' nPwdreesseoeinliult.-^.l ^----------- -- lions arrived at. Art's own pslnt chew. | SAFETY NCT with dropetoth Is spteod obovo machinery before polnrers work on 70-ltHigh ceiling in power ptom. Point sploshes end dropped toots kept from machinery j$i gives lab findings on new prodacu 1 He also advises on tough iutiace-pr-: lection problems end licking some 1 usual local condition. Everyone has a chance to put ia kit oar. So supervisors go back into ike ; field ready to tackle their problem i from a new slant. Do these meeting* . pay off? They helped put this firm at" the head of the lilt, competing with local contractors everywhere. Another reason Cannon does to Dueh work in power plants Is that his experts do erilicai areas, without a shutdown. The plant's regular painting erew does routine safe areas that almost any painter can do. Every Cannon supervisor has ytw ^cvJbdj training with the 6rm. Safety f big iie> especially when working v ,bove arid around machinery, as L*r plants- A green painter olways S ^ a trained 'man until he Kim the ropes. Htftltnertng is important. Condition {reach building or section is listed as fed, fair, poor or very poor. When a paint, next scheduled repainting, jcatalioa and commenu are listed. Mere some typical remarks f copied from $85,000 estimate: Buildings can wail until rehajfjjitsdon program U scheduled, then -S^.-grior and exterior painting can be fdooe. <2) Buildings viewed by public ;aeetl painting lor public relations snd K-jppearance. (3) Can woh until more (is) buildings are finished. (4) 'tag important to production should me before more replacements ore i needed." . i Sckadudng. All preparations are } completed before plant is shut down. ^That means putting up protection, hav ing enough men for shutdown equiporal so work isn't held up, etc. His average power-plant team ol pttnitn is about 40 men. Idea is to put is many men as possible on a job at one 1 lime as overhead costs the same for 10 ' men as for 100. Safety. iCh painting super checks Kjffoidi, ladders, rope and other equip ment before sending them to a job. Sifeiy nets are homemade because Art im't satisfied with ones on market. Every rope, aeafTold. ladder, etc, is num bered and recorded on an office card. Age, repairs and all other data are jotted down. All rope is scrapped after one year's service, regardless of condi tion. "CAUTION, men working over head" signs are placed below painiera. Because of on excellent aofety record, this firm has very low insurance rates. Doing the Job. Here ire a few rules on paintiog; Wire-brush, scrape or chip all rust and corrosion spots. Vacuumclean to prevent loose dust, flyfish, etc, getting into mochinery. Spraying can be more expensive than a brush job at it needs more protec tion. But, usually, spraying gives a thinner coal, does not protect os well. Never red-lead new metal exposed to weather. When building outdoor metal tonks and steel structure, let them rust for a year or two until all mithscale ruata off. Coal of primer and paint lasts on such a job. If red lead is paint ed over new metal, mill scale peels off with time, taking new paint with it. fn our electric-generating plants, 35% burn coal, 35% burn oil or gas, 30% are hydroelectric. Newest plants can switch from coal to oil, whichever is cheaper. These dual-design boilers present temperature problems. Ducts gel hotter when oil-fired, need a heat-resistant paint to cover changing temperatures. Aluminum is often used --one- cost. Aluminum's vornish-vehide stacks up with other enamels. If not aluminum, use a light pear) gray, a emi-alkyd oil-baae paint, with a semigloss finish. There is no good best-reslstant paint in green or blue. Here ore a few eolor schemes for power plants. Turbine Hoorn, celling--oyster while for right light reflection. Ceilings ere usually 60 to 70 feet high. Light green or cream adds good character to this room. Walla-light gray. Machinery --so(t green enamel. Boiler room, ceiling--oyster white. II walls are brick, well alniek end pointed, or of good monolithic concrete, leave unpainted. Don't paint unneces sarily if surface is attractive and needs no protection. Once pointed, a surface must always be painted. Use heat-re sistant aluminum or a gray paint for boilers and adjacent piping, boiler doors, buck stays and duets, i Piping. Paint the same color as boiler. Palm all insulated piping con nected with boiler feed system s con trasting enamel of dark gray or green. On other machinery, such as pumps, drivers, coal pulverisers, coal feedera, uae a gray bard-drying gloss surface. Colored plastic bands are best for pip ing. If over 12 colora are used, hove labeled bands. Adopt U-S. Bureau of Ships color schema. Crone. Point high-viiihility yellow for safety. (toiling. Paint top rail black, so soil ing from hands won't show. Paint mid dle rail safely yellow, ond the rest gray. Yellow middle-rail makes stairway "stand out" for quick access to trouble spot. Fire lines. Paint.red or use red bands to identify them. Stocks. Paint with special eoating to withstand temperature. Paint aluminum slacks at lop with broad black band to camouflage smoke discoloration. "Remember," Art Cannon reminded me as I left, "It costs more not to paint" u SIGNS tell plom employ*, PROTECT wo'kino b~ . , ----__-- '.Z'Zz^ -- +*9 no shutdown's needed Mftpi. eliher lattsfed or plain cotort PUN! Operation AND MAINTENANCE SECTION ,0*11 "I / -y ,1 V-tf / .r COMOIION 1, lough on Ifcef sosh if Putty foils betweon gloss and the sash V\v : | ' \-.\v (,\\ w / ':VC -:'U\\ L .\v'K\.. / a 1 \ '' / CALK steel sosh with gun after digging SPRAYING: not usually os good os brush out old putty--before painting sash work, calls for mask In close quorrers OCIOME 1035 PUNT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SECTION