{"id":2127,"date":"2008-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:53:56","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew448\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing &#8220;Prop Shield&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Not all underwater metal surfaces are good candidates for anti-fouling paint, so the Dashews test a product called &quot;Prop Shield&quot;.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subhead\">\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Prop Shield test\" title=\"Prop Shield test\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/haul_08-2b.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;re testing a new (to us) metal coating called Prop Shield. This is a grease-like substance that is applied to underwater metal surfaces which are not good candidates for anti-fouling paint.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"prop coated with Prop Shield\" title=\"prop coated with Prop Shield\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/haul_08-2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s our buddy, Dave Wyman, using a heat gun to warm the propeller (per the instructions) to help draw the Prop shield into the surface porosity of the metal (check out Dave&#8217;s cool hat).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll report back in six months or so once we see how this is working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all underwater metal surfaces are good candidates for anti-fouling paint, so the Dashews test a product called &quot;Prop Shield&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}