Refueler
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Thanks for reminding me, it was Symblast that did mine. Lovely job.
The operator's party piece was to clean his hands with the blaster when he'd finished, just to show how controllable it was.
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We had an AB who did that with a closed blaster that was empty of grit on one ship. Should only have been air come out. Ended up with grit embedded under the skin which we could not extract.
(Closed blaster was a diabolical machine that had a rubber boot that you slid over the work - in this case deck. The centre nozzle blasted grit at the deck and then a vacuum via the boot was supposed to take grit and blasted crud away. Well it sort of worked but tended to leave a trail of water behind from the ships compressed air supply. Utter rubbish !)
Thanks for reminding me, it was Symblast that did mine. Lovely job.
The operator's party piece was to clean his hands with the blaster when he'd finished, just to show how controllable it was.
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We had an AB who did that with a closed blaster that was empty of grit on one ship. Should only have been air come out. Ended up with grit embedded under the skin which we could not extract.
(Closed blaster was a diabolical machine that had a rubber boot that you slid over the work - in this case deck. The centre nozzle blasted grit at the deck and then a vacuum via the boot was supposed to take grit and blasted crud away. Well it sort of worked but tended to leave a trail of water behind from the ships compressed air supply. Utter rubbish !)