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Discovery in the lab!

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I believe it has been said before on this blog and I have no doubt that it will be said again. Conservation is not a career for those who desire instant gratification in the work place. Treatment times tend to be long, especially for marine archaeological material where desalination is perhaps the most important process. That being said, every now and then there are days where discovery and success happen in an instant. Last week I was lucky enough to have one of those days.

I’m currently working on a copper alloy bicock valve that was removed from the front of the condenser.阅读更多

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Some special events from last week

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Well, we may be done in the tank farm but that doesn’t mean that life around the lab has slowed at all. We are now back to working on individual projects. There were, however a couple of special events last week.

Rich Carlstedt came to visit and brought along his model of the Monitor’s main steam engine. This incredible model was built to a 1/16thscale and we believe it to be the most accurate model of the engine in existence. Rich probably knows more about the engine than any man alive and was happy to share this knowledge with us during a special guest lecture. He also ran the model for us, a fascinating thing to see. If you would like to see what the Monitor’s main engine would have looked like while in action, you should go and check out thisYoutube 视频。阅读更多

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消息from the Tank Farm

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Turret stanchions waiting for their turned to be cleaned.

Work has been progressing nicely out in the Tank Farm. After a week in Tank 1 with the copper alloy artifacts, we refilled the tank with fresh solution, covered it back up with a tarp and moved into Tank 6. Tank 6 and 5 (which we were into this week) hold wrought iron artifacts. They all received a through cleaned via dry ice blasting, which is rapidly becoming one of my new favorite things.

关于干冰爆破这些伪影的最令人兴奋的事情之一是去除混凝土通常会揭示先前隐藏的特征。过去两周的两个伪影是这种情况。第一个是炮塔上的螺旋桨之一。阅读更多

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Heigh-ho，Heigh-ho，我们走进坦克。。。

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Out in the tank farm deconcreting copper alloy objects.
Out in the tank farm deconcreting copper alloy objects.

This week the time had come to get back into some of our larger tanks, and so tank farm season began. We were last out in the tank farm in the summer of 2014, how time flies! This summer we will be dry ice blasting all of the wrought iron artifacts that live in tank farm.

We spent this week in Tank 1, which holds copper alloy artifacts. All of the copper alloy objects, mostly pipes, were taken out the tank, examined, weighed (this helps with desalination calculations), given a brief round of flame deconcretion. By the end of week all the artifacts were back in the tank, snug as a bug in a rug, and with a freshly prepared solution.阅读更多

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我们需要您的帮助！

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Interior of the USS Monitor's turret showing the gun carriages in situ.
Interior of the USS Monitor’s turret showing the gun carriages in situ.

弗吉尼亚州博物馆（VAM）协会今年正在运行弗吉尼亚州的十大濒临灭绝的神器课程。我们提名了Dahlgrgren枪车。我们过去已经写了一些关于这些复合工件的治疗（见这个帖子,这个帖子和这个帖子…amongothers）。由木材，铁和铜合金零件组成，使它们成为美国最复杂的物体之一监视器collection. All of these materials require individual incompatible treatments causing conservatorsheadto develop new strategies for their care. Now we need your help to get them onto the top ten Endangered Artifacts list that will promote our conservation efforts. Please go vote atwww.vatop10artifacts.org.。被邀请公众从8月1日到31日投票投票。VAM将于9月27日宣布荣誉th。

We’ll be back with more conservation adventures soon. Now,go vote!阅读更多