Why not mothball?
Storage of all types of industrial equipment – including transport vehicles, dies, moulds, machinery and aircraft - can be safely stored in an outdoor environment using ‘mothballing’.
Particularly in situations or locations where covered storage is not available, affordable, or large enough to cope with demand, mothballing overrides this problem and provides a total seal for a lengthy period of time.
Cost effective, as it is much less expensive than constructing a building, mothballing is supplied simply with a spray gun or paint brush and requires no special skill or qualifications to handle. Based on the Seal n Peel 442 technology from Dominion Plastic Industries , the uses of mothballing are almost limitless.
“Industries of all types have found that construction costs in the modern era are often prohibitive, so we met the call for a storage solution with mothballing,” says Euan Sutherland, managing director of Dominion Plastic Industries.
An example of how strong and effective the solution is can be found at the Royal Australian Air Force base museum at Point Cook, Victoria, where a large Hercules aircraft has been mothballed in Seal n Peel 442. This coating has a long life expectancy and will protect the aircraft continuously in the outdoors for up to 12 years – rain, hail or shine.
The museum has a lot of aircraft on display in its hangars, but recently ran out of internal room and could not allocate the huge funds required for a new hangar of the size required. And, as Point Cook is right next to the sea, there was an added threat of corrosion and seagull droppings affecting the plane if stored exposed to the open environment.
Before mothballing, the Hercules was first pressure cleaned to remove any oxidation that may have formed over the years and then coated with the Seal n Peel 442 material. Seal n Peel 442 was used to coat the entire plane, including the undercarriage, propellers and windows.
Periodically, the Hercules may require servicing or maintenance on the inside, so service personnel merely cut the seal at the entry door and when work is complete they easily seal it again by applying Seal n Peel 442 with a paint brush.
Source: Building Products News.
19-Oct-2004