"Bruce" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:16:58 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:05:08 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

esterday we had a steam cleaner (8GPM @ 3000psi @ 225°F) clean the
bottom of the boat.

Not possible to have steam at those conditions. Steam has to be at
more than 1000 F to reach such pressures. If you pressurize steam to
3000 psi it will condense unless very hot. The liquid in question will
begin flash into steam as it leaves the sprayer tip. It might not be
properly called steam cleaning, but I admit that is a nitpick.

In my experience, steam cleaning uses just steam.

Casady


But wouldn't 700+ degrees have a detrimental effect on fiberglass?


You're darned tootin' it does! Those temperatures will soften it up. It'll
also cause any trapped moisture to boil out causing more holes and tiny
fractures into which sea water may ingress to cause further blisters later
on. This new 'drying out' method advocated by Skippy and a few other fools
in this group is just so destructive. Makes me wonder why ANYONE, even
morons, are stupid enough to believe it.

Wilbur Hubbard


Ah, willie-buffoon is back. And when did you turn into an expert? Is
this like your expertise in electrical theory, or refrigeration? Or is
this just something you read in a book and didn't understand? Or
perhaps a lesson on how to obtain batteries by fraudulent means?

By the way willie. for years you raved about ****ting in a bucket and
now you slipped up and bragged about your electric toilet.

Heh. I wouldn't have characterized it in that fashion (your closing para),
but the same thought occurred to me :{))

L8R

Skip, back to more fiberglassing on our bone-dry (not the first WSM weep
following the PW) hull

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