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Static Electricity Banished in Banffshire Spray Painting Booth
01 Dec 2005
Scotland's Buckie Shipyard has been a major contractor to the RNLI for over 60 years. The shipyard carries out repairs on all classes of RNLI vessels and is one of only two yards carrying out refits on the RNLI's 17m Severn Class lifeboats.
The yard finishes off refits with a re-spray in a new hightechnology painting booth which can accommodate vessels 21m long and 10m high, with beams to 6m and up to 50 tons displacement.
It is temperature and humidity controlled to ensure all boats leave the yard with a top quality finish.
There was however a teething problem with static charge, which attracted dust and resulted in contamination of the vessels' surface prior to painting. Buckie turned to static control products specialists Meech International, which recommended the use of the Model 954 shockless ionising gun.
Buckie purchased four of the hand-held instruments, which remove dust and neutralise static electricity. Use of the 954 guns had an immediate impact, dramatically reducing the man hours required to finish a job and ensuring on time delivery as well as improving the quality of finish.
The introduction of anti-static measures ensures quality which not only meets the RNLI's high standards but is also applied to all other boats leaving the Buckie yard.
MJInformation No: 21316
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