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BUDGET ITEM JUSTIFICATION (EXHIBIT P-40)
UNCLASSIFIED
DATE:
FEBRUARY 2002
APPROP CODE/BA:
OPAF/OTHER BASE MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
P-1 NOMENCLATURE:
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
Description (continued):
g. ElectroSpark Deposition (ESD), Hill AFB, UT: FY02 funds will procure a semi-automated metal deposition system that is designed to
provide durable line-of-sight coatings to a wide array of landing gear substrates. The technology is commercially available and currently
employed by the Department of Energy for its nuclear reactor components. Current Hill AFB chrome plating practices use wet-chemistry
electrolysis. Various landing gear sustainment activities require entire chemical masking of large landing gear assemblies in order to plate
relatively minute areas. ESD, with its wide metallurgical coating/plating applications, will eliminate wet-plating practices to coat small
landing gear surface areas; hazardous plating waste discharges and sludge disposal; significantly reduce hazardous chemical maskants;
and do away with inefficient wet chrome plating practices.
FY03:
h. ElectroSpark Deposition (ESD), Tinker AFB, OK: FY03 funds will procure a semi-automated metal deposition system that is designed to
provide durable line-of-sight coatings to a wide array of aircraft and missile Gas Turbine Engine (GTE) components. The technology is
commercially available and currently employed by the Department of Energy for its nuclear reactor components. Current Tinker AFB chrome
plating practices utilize wet chemistry electrolysis. Various GTE component sustainment activities require near complete chemical masking of
the components in order to plate relatively minute areas. ESD with its wide metallurgical coating/plating applications will eliminate wet plating
practices to coat small GTE component surface areas; reduce hazardous plating waste discharges and sludge disposal; significant reduction of
hazardous chemical maskants; and do away with inefficient wet chrome plating practices.
i. Handheld Laser Paint Stripper, Eglin AFB, FL: This equipment will remove paint without the use of chemical strippers. FY03 funding
will procure portable equipment that removes paint on armament and weapon system areas that typically are inaccessible (e.g. complex
geometric, fragile surfaces) by larger automated paint removal systems. Proven technology indicates this Laser application generates
significantly less hazardous waste, and reduces significant compliance under Aerospace NESHAPS and Clean Water Act requirements.
j. Handheld Laser Paint Stripper, Robins AFB, GA: This equipment will remove paint without the use of chemical strippers. FY03 funding
will procure portable laser depaint equipment that removes paint from areas of aircraft outer moldline and aircraft components that typically are
inaccessible (e.g. complex geometric, fragile surfaces, on-flight line maintenance) by larger automated paint removal systems. Proven
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