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我一直是写一个关于关于进展的博客Monitor但是,虽然考古对象节省者目前专注于该集合的这一部分,但我们竭尽所知,我认为与您分享也有趣。

If you have not done so yet, check out Laurie’s最新的博客关于她最近对待的枪支海绵。它看起来很好!

布罗克还发表了一个伟大的博客关于最近我们看到筛分的文件照片提示Monitor从过去的清洁运动沉积物(枪镗孔冷凝器床清洁nutguards cleaning…).除了几个预期的螺栓外,我们在我们经历过的沉积物中做了几件事。保持调整另一个故事,揭示了我们发现的东西!目前,我们很高兴地报告我们与以前的沉积物更新Monitor清洁运动!

Something we seldom mention here is the time we spend doing maintenance on large tanks in the Wet Lab as well as in the “Tank Farm”. This summer, we took care of three large tanks located outside and two large tanks inside the Wet Lab. Maintenance means that we are changing the reference electrodes, cleaning the anodes if need be, checking all connections, sometimes rewiring, cleaning the (really) dirty tarps and renewing the alkaline solutions (each large tank requires 400lbs of caustic salts added to the water!). These are not the most glamorous activities we do but they are essential to the object’s conservation process.

在我们在实验室所做的频谱的另一边,我们一直与博物馆的助理研究科学家Molly McGath博士在研究项目中与博物馆的助理研究员一起工作。莫莉和我一直在继续我们寻找最适应的治疗方法,以从涝渍有机物中提取铁离子。我们正试图确保发生的伤害公主卡罗琳timberstoday不会发生Monitor有机明天(即一旦干燥)。换句话说,Kress Senderation Sourcelly Christina Altland,一旦造成损坏就完成了解决问题卡罗莱纳公主木材和莫莉,我正在尝试预防方法,而物体仍然是潮湿的。为此目的,我们在非常强大的显微镜(扫描电子显微镜,AKA SEM)下,我们一直在比较木质样品的处理选择应用研究中心威廉和玛丽。虽然我们仍有为这个项目做的工作,但我们在过去的一个月里得到了一些有趣的结果。

弧威廉和玛丽的SEM
在SEM室和计算机监视器中仔细地仔细地将木制样品仔细插入,显示了以前的示例图像

Lesley, Laurie and Molly are also on a quest to best treat the many rubber垫圈恢复并脱离Monitor大会. They have been monitoring a sample of gaskets with a technique called Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy while the gaskets are drying to identify possible degradation during this treatment phase.

垫圈上的FTIR.
Molly和Lesley在USS监视器垫片上进行FTIR分析。照片由布洛克瑞士/海滨博物馆和公园提供。亚博平台网址

当然,我们正在卷起约80个绳索碎片和填料来自沉船的填料密封材料。莱斯利和前保守党在工作人员凯特·沙利文做了背景工作for best practice on this specific collectionand we started working on the smaller fragments last spring. As usual, a significant part of the job is to thoroughly document the objects, including identifying the fibers to hopefully be able to draw some interesting typology conclusion about this corpus down the line. Now that some of the smaller fragments have been fully treated, the objects are more substantial in size which is a nice change!

本周,考古保护团队开始最终拆卸工作监视器'冷凝器。对于修复船舶的这一部分,请检查这一点博客出去。在大约一个月内,冷凝器的零件将在较小的坦克中处理,并用全新的治疗设置和解决方案。我们期待项目的新里程碑!

Have a great week everyone!