so what first step one step one step one what is this scotch-brite pad yeah just
get the varnish to lose varnish off to the rust and sawdust and anything else
that might happen down there you've got that bloom you get the punish you've got
a chipped off work we bent it
and almost too much too much see right here all we're trying to do is
get anything it's loose off pulling it off now it is it is I just I want to I
want to stress this it does have me a lot of breath right right we're looking
to knock the loose stuff off that's tough I mean main areas of concern is
like for a pipe wrench his his bid on the pipe yeah you know to rub with the
lines that we were getting inside the ser a shion's of okay the pipe wrench
but I mean that you know same thing with the fitting you know with the serrations
that we were getting down in the bottom I see this done all the time works
really all they're doing is try to knock off anything that's sitting on lower
okay
okay so we haven't tested our hydraulic lines yet so we're only gonna do one of
these as example because he's here and he knows how to do them so this is the
show me a joint and then we'll pressure test and then we'll come back and do all
the joints yeah I'll make sure I'm here for that if you want to be yeah always
love me well I'm or you don't work the better it is for me for some reason it
just works out like though they make a primer for putting the tape over yes
okay so you don't have that primer I don't it's it's it's industry only and
it comes by gallon five gallon or 55-gallon drums okay in the last week I
haven't been able to find a source for it yeah so some guys out there that want
to provide some you know Doug's address yeah well so here's an easy cheap I'm
sure no manufacturer is gonna tell us this is okay but it's an oil-based
coating paint and then we're gonna take mineral spirits which is approved to cut
this we're gonna thin it so that it's the right consistency to coat the
surface of the pipe so that when we put on pipe protecting tape which is just a
fancy way of saying PVC vinyl Joe you do that you turn like that yep so all this
is is 20 mil you can buy 10 mil that's the thickness of the tape yes so this is
20 mils thick point zero to zero this is zero point zero one zero okay so it's
just a matter of how much width you need to get the coverage and whether or not
you're gonna spiral wrap it or cigar or cigarette I know that's not politically
correct anymore but what's this other tape then so this so this is quite a bit
different this is a non woven synthetic material
coated with a petroleum-based ingredient and what this does is it encapsulate s'
to itself covering the surface this is designed for direct berry in anywhere
it's also designed for offshore stuff okay so this is the product they use for
coating fittings and steel piping right sure right okay good so now it can be
used without a primer especially this petroleum-based tape it
can be used without a primer but the the reason you do want to wrap it with put
primer on there before you wrap it is that helps fill in all the little
microscopic surface avoids that also especially using the PVC based tape
based tape it gives a good chance to not only adhere well but that there's no air
encapsulated underneath the tape all right so then what's this so this stuff
this stuff is a faring paste and it's the same basic ingredient as what's on
the tape except this is designed so that we have to this is just old grease well
we bought a tub of old grease it's with this especially form specially
formulated old grease all right yeah it's a paste 125 years service to
industry yes and I'm I would imagine if you found one that was from year one it
would still be good yeah I can understand that
yep yes where's gorgeous all over the primer yeah which we're gonna make right
and then and then we would fare any low spots with the pace or the transitions
so from the pipe to the fitting yeah we'll use this to make that cute
well fairing fairy literally fairy so it's faster through the water built for
speed in the bill and then we'll go to this hay and then we go to this so
there's where we where we can make a decision do we want to use just PVC tape
or do we want to use just this smooth neither or this is designed for more of
corrosion protection without being submerged okay so places like the bilge
we may want to use straight tape you mean straight a stray petroleum take the
drugs Dave over we busy or we could use the PVC okay but if it was a round of
water it's kind of like on the deck well I'm sure there's some experts out there
cringing for either Dina or I'm one of those guys that both of them will work
there's probably a better application for one but that's assuming that this
can stay protected I don't necessarily in my experience see that happening a
lot so you want okay so this can't be protected this is more robust ice it's
not as waterproof or corrosion proof right but it's more robust well is there
a problem with using this and then giving it a coat of that no it's just
that it's kind of development stickies decide to it it does I mean just one
side or is it both sticky single side home are well see that won't collect
sand off the deck correct where this stuff is gonna pick up whatever flies by
and lands on it in fact in industrial applications a lot of times this gets a
final paint layer a coating okay Irish coat and
since it's nice smooth plastic it has a pretty good finish cool sometimes so
smooth the coatings won't stick to it yeah but you can rough it up with a
scotch brite yeah black is alright it's a good color yeah yeah we're just gonna
thin it down some let's see what that looks like yeah that's pretty good
a lot of times gal just put on a glove and ball up a rag and just use that
because while you're looking for is service coverage and I'll paint the
house here and see here's here's where the faring compound will come in handy
making the transition from the pipe to the fitting and even in big fittings
filling up the the weird transitions on the actual fitting itself since I've got
some paint brush we'll go ahead and hit that spot because what we're trying to
do is just fill in those those voids that would be caused by the the pipe
branch and surface conditions of the actual fitting and pipe itself and all
that sort of thing I mean this truly is not rocket science
don't know what's in here but it's supposed to be temperature stable up to
150 degrees Fahrenheit you are generous with it well I am so what might my
temperatures here is is the shoulder of the fitting I want to make a profile of
about a 45 degree angle between the yeah between the fitting and anymore it is
squeeze every but c1 correct and then and we'll have to be careful when we put
the tape on that we don't you know squeeze it out this is not the job for
an OCD person all right so this stuff is hard to deal with
it is a nonwoven synthetic material that has this product on it and it is sticky
it smells it is not any fun to play with it's what works so well and now what
we're going to just try to do is we're going to try to put this on here making
nice contact without squeezing out too much of the product to paste and this is
again where an OCD guy can just go nuts because there's no real good way to do
it there's no real guidelines it's just get it done cut and cover until we have
an individual satisfaction the job has been completed
like I said this is where you can either get OCD artistic or just slather but
what we're trying to do is we're trying to make sure that it's it's coded and
fared and making contact at the edges that's really all we're doing here and
if you want to get real fancy and make sure that all the seams are facing down
so that you know gravity is working with it instead of against it that would
probably a good be a good thing and then pushing the air to make sure you've got
a good contact and it's making good contact with itself at the end of the
day that's what it should look like something similar to that there is no
perfect you know doctor that couldn't fix his buttons all day long it'd be
good at this yes yeah sorry doctors don't do that anymore or people who do
paper mache oh yeah hey that's why we did paper mache at school for yeah yeah
practice for working in the industry well guys make a good living putting
this stuff on you know it's one of those things where you just did your site okay
where's a good place to start and then just start
and they make three different versions to the product they have a low
temperature the regular and a tropical product I've only seen the the normal
used which you know in low temperatures it's miserable and when it's hot it's
too flexible but I've also never have seen it so hot that it was unusable the
normal subgrade was unusable it's just a matter of how stiff it is or how
flexible and after a while the the light ends in the product kind of vaporize off
and it develops more of a shell I don't know if that's its intent so when you
take it off you have to use this some just take a razor and just pack off and
pack it off put up fresh blade in your utility knife and just cut on it and as
it smears out I've always seen guys just use that to kind of coat it so here's
the before on a clip there where I filled up the crevice with that grease
yeah and then here's one afterwards where I just wrapped it and I'm
essentially just encapsulating the before cool and that once it I just
don't see how anything is gonna get past that well I mean as long as you've got
the edges sealed up nice and tight where water is not going to get in there
you're not going to get a water intrusion so you know it'll develop a
skin over it and even submerged they say that stuff is rated for it yeah yeah
this is the ten mil so those are the thinner stuff they make a twenty and a
50 mil the thicker it is the more impact it can take before it actually abrades
all the way through so spiral wrap your literally spiral wrapping and you're
looking for crossing back over the old No yep that's the idea if I can get it
at just the right angle we'll get 75 to 100 percent coverage
without a wrinkle so now where is this used in industry yeah underground piping
this is used a lot in fact pipelines they have rolls that are six inches wide
and machines that will actually automatically wrap it now what they
really do pipes like this in an industry rather than just to use a coating on oh
absolutely absolutely because you can get the stuff in all the way up to thick
six inches thick with rolls that are three 400 feet long so you're talking
about a machine that's got I mean you can you can even do on those machines
you can even have it hold multiple rolls so they'll use a thinner roll for the
base material and then thicker layers for the the upper portions so you can
literally put on every rotation the machine is putting on three different
types of tape and why do you want so much protection on those pipes this is
just easier to get it on than using a coating well it's that but it's also has
impact protection all right the thicker it is you've
actually got a cushion well even if you've impacted and are braided that the
upper surface you have an effect of the other two layers right so you drop a
tool or a bar against it you're gonna you're not gonna chip paint off right
the same thing is if you're bearing it a pipeline if you're putting this back in
the ground and a hard dirt clod or even rock hits it it's you know it's gonna
hit it and maybe it bruises that top layer but it's not gonna cut through all
three layers plus the primer right I've seen this stuff dug up that was done in
the 80s or 90s and it's it's beautiful underneath a lot
of times you can still read the writing on it because they haven't ever been
affected or exposed to UV so the tape itself is in great condition and and the
the machines you know they can control the tension and the angle and all that
other stuff so as a result it's it's a wonderful product it's more expensive
than a coating but you can see that we could you know we could holiday test
this or Jeep test this there's no way it's gonna get anything through it yeah
exactly exactly you know exactly what to go so a lot of times the cost is is
offset by how confident they're gonna be that the that the product could survive
the application we're really happy to have in this location because this is
the center of the work room so everything in the world is gonna get
banged into these pipes sure and they'll still work as hand holes there's a for
everybody doesn't know there's a main mass for the sailboat comes down sis
right there on that X so these are surrounding that will actually cut
through this and weld them to it once it's in here to stabilize them at the
top but it won't be a big deal put a knife to this tape and get back down to
steel then tape it back up yeah in in the oilfield business most guys carry a
machete it's not to cut weeds it's actually to use it as a as a draw knife
or a plain knife to actually scrape this kind of stuff away it's it's a wonderful
product Mikey like you're seeing it's easy to apply if
I do this without losing the last a little bit
so there's our termination okay so for here I'm not going to be able to get the
role underneath it right so either I can cut little pieces and wrap it this way
or I can do the other direction and go this direction coverage is the same and
since it's essentially a tape I can stretch it around you know a light Bend
and then just roll it around the pipe and since they make different widths
with a wider role you might be able to make it all the way around
does it come in something other than Christie's there's a lot of
manufacturers you know there's an adult store here in town named Christie's so
this is really friendly out here might be the same place yeah I think so yeah
I know where you shop for your hahaha so 20 mil in this run same thing a straight
run one inch pipes with with two inch tape it takes three layers or three
pieces to get all the way around all right
with adequate overlap so 20 mil versus the 10 mil mm-hmm
10 mil on the 3/4 inch thick it took two layers to two pieces to get all the way
around the 3/4 inch pipe it's available through Amazon yeah and you're welcome
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the secret is just to use pieces and stuff like this you just you've got to
put it on so that you've got an overlap and an angle that it's touching itself
because especially with this this grease of this petroleum-based stuff once a
touch the tape touches it it's only gonna stick to itself that you come back
and this grease would be a little more solid and sure because the light ends
the the distillate spirits will evaporate to some extent and this will
develop a skin you won't have near as much Sheen so it can be done the same
day but just a little more care about not sticking the tape on and pulling off
and trying again with it if you you really need to be pretty
assertive and what you're doing with the tape because you get one chance if it
touches it you just need to that's where it goes guys do this with 6-inch rolls
for say a 16 or 20 inch pipe guys will start making pieces like this where one
guy is just cutting pieces and two other guys are putting it on the pipe one on
each side of the pipe and we might cover 30 40 feet of length of pipe on 20 inch
diameter pipe this way all right so see how it's just sliding around because
it's got so much wouldn't add in on a sheet of oil yeah so we're just gonna
get that to lay there and then we'll get another one to go around and tape to it
and tape from tape to tape thanks for dropping by and learning a little more
about corrosion protection