{"id":37,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:14:12","slug":"anchor-chain-washdown-with-compressed-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-chain-washdown-with-compressed-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor Chain Washdown with Compressed Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">Hi Steve and Linda- First, I wanted to thank you for a wonderfully written and very helpful book. Glad I ordered it and have recommended it to others (including my father who will be ordering a copy for the library he runs at a technical college). Anyway, on page 50 you discuss different anchor chain washdown and cleaning systems to prevent and minimize the junk collected in the chain pipe. Have you considered using compressed air instead of water? It has the benefit of both cleaning and mostly drying the chain in one step. Downside is that it is more noisy than water. While I haven&#8217;t tried it in a marine setting, I use this technique very often for cleaning\/drying my 1\/2&#8243; logging chains on land as I reel them in and stuff them back in their storage drums. It does a remarkable job and my chains last much longer than they used to. I&#8217;ve found that anything over 80 lbs does the trick nicely removing the thick mud I build up. Just a thought. &#8211; Jeff <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">Hi Jeff: Using compressed air to clean the anchor chain&#8230;now that&#8217;s an interesting concept. I have not seen this done in the past and my first guess would be that high pressure water would do a more thorough job. However, if you had a source for the air already aboard, it would make an interesting experiment. On the other hand, if you had to add a compressor, I suspect a really good job could be done with a properly sized dedicated salt water pump &#8211; for less expense. Thanks for the nice comments on the book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve and Linda- First, I wanted to thank you for a wonderfully written and very helpful book. Glad I <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchor-chain-washdown-with-compressed-air\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anchoring-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36464,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/36464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}