New antifoul discovery - 100% effective AND green

[Boston]

and yet were told its completely safe to cook on?

thats perfect

B

[pamarine]

Originally Posted by Boston

and yet were told its completely safe to cook on?

thats perfect

B

Um, not sure I know anybody that has ever made TBT Cookware.

[Boston]

maybe I missed the abbreviation, Mass was talking Teflon

[FAST FRED]

Back in the 70's ther was a product from BF Goodrich called No Foul.

It was like 3/16 or 1/4 inch scuba divers wet suit material , epoxied to the hull.

10 Year guarentee , only problem was the active material was Mercury, and the tree eaters didn't like that very much.

I believe it still exists , for submarines , guess the Navy's of the world would rather stay alive than not.

FF

[boat fan]

Originally Posted by Boston

sorry I was on the "crapper"

change the subject
nah
we were after all talking about anti-foul weren't we

besides Im pretty sure some folks in here are clearly doing there thinkin while firmly planted on the Lou anyway

the invention thats just waiting to hit the market is the black water holding tank breeder gas production anti-fouling bubble release system. ( just thought of it actually ) takes a methane producing bacteria and seeds the holding tank with it then has a preasure release valve that bubbles excess gas under the hull, my bet is that pelagic barnacles dont like methane

what do you think
should I move the idea over to the economics page and see about promotin it round the world

ps
something tells me we would have the bar tender laughing her ass off should we ever actually meet up for a few pints

Damn.....I`ve just crapped myself laughing....... Have some crappy points Boston

[masalai]

My black water tank has that capacity, but production is so small I cannot even sustain a small pilot light to burn off the smell - - - but had ti install an anti-flash-back-device, as tank explosion is not a pleasant event...

[brian eiland]

Originally Posted by FAST FRED

Back in the 70's ther was a product from BF Goodrich called No Foul.

It was like 3/16 or 1/4 inch scuba divers wet suit material , epoxied to the hull.

10 Year guarentee , only problem was the active material was Mercury, and the tree eaters didn't like that very much.

I believe it still exists , for submarines , guess the Navy's of the world would rather stay alive than not.

FF

Actually that material No-Foul was developed for use on the submarine sonar domes, and as such metal based antifoulatants were discouraged. It was the organic TBTF (antifouling agent, tributyltin fluoride) agent that was impregnated into the elastic rubber material. It worked.

Hey Fred, I just discovered we had this discussion before:
New propulsion sytems for ships
Maybe some of those impregnated materials were metallic...sure would surprise me.

[boat fan]

Kevlar Scatter Cage Mas........

[hoytedow]

Originally Posted by brian eiland

Actually that material No-Foul was developed for use on the submarine sonar domes, and as such metal based antifoulatants were discouraged. It was the organic TBTF (antifouling agent, tributyltin fluoride) agent that was impregnated into the elastic rubber material. It worked.

Even that doesn't protect it from cookie-cutter sharks, which have a nasty habit of attacking the leading end of anything they might find delectable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookiecutter_shark

[jonr]

What happened to arc sprayed copper or zinc? Supposedly can be applied to anything (doesn't heat the surface significantly) and is fine for the environment.

[brian eiland]

Since the fall of '07, this writer and her husband's boat has been part of a bottom paint study to test the efficacy of the biocide Econea, an eco-friendly product produced by Janssen Pharmaceutica and sold to different paint companies. Three paints were applied to the bottom of our Crealock 37 — one control paint containing 67% copper, one solvent-based test paint and one water-based test paint. After a year, the water-based paint, in our opinion as boat owners, was not only the best among the three, but the best paint we'd ever used. There was zero hard growth on all three — which made them equally 'successful' in the eye of study coordinator Jack Hickey, as that is the study's primary focus — but the water-based paint had very little slime or grass. The other two were mini-ecosystems unto their own

...photos and more of the article here:
http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/...yid=515#Story4

[Boston]

thats pretty slick Brian

thanks

[FAST FRED]

"They dissappeared and now someone is selling as if they were new. I wonder what happened to the old units and how well they worked.",
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About as well as magnets stuck on the fuel line , to kill alge and get 45% better fuel mileage.

FF

[michael pierzga]

Imagine introducing BIOCIDE into the ecosystem !..Heavy metals are bad enough...what was the Biocide ? Top secret.

[sdowney717]

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HT...ews/news/2045/

medetomidine causes barnacles to get hyperactive and they dont attach to the surface.