Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society

• Work Weekend Tasks-Every Year:
  

1. *Cargo Hold
2. *Vacuum staff office
3. *Clean exhibit case glass inside and out.(Only outside was completed)
   
4. *Engine room Scrape and touch up paint, Polish Brass as needed
5. Cabin Deck (In this order)
6. *Touch up paint in Crew’s quarters, galley and mess halls.
7. *Please Note:some areas may only need steel wool and wax to clean very small areas of rust.Mainly around bolt and screw holes.
8. *Wash portholes
9. *Wipe down walls and furniture as needed
10. *Vacuum all rooms
11. *Clean up paint drippings
12. *Make beds and put out props
13. *Polish Brass as needed in Pilot house
14. *Wash windows clean equipment Polish Brass as needed

• General House Cleaning:
  

1. *Clean out insulation from under bunk beds
2. Pressure wash outside of ship (or any other areas including future painted areas)

    

   • Scraping and Painting:
     

1. Paint ceiling on starboard side display area (Need Scaffolding)
2. Paint rails in Boiler room (Silver color)
3. Paint Red rails on stairs in boiler room
4. *Apply another coat of white paint to, upper engine room ceiling, middle level of engine room port side forward, and another other touchup areas in entire engine room.
5. *Apply another coat of white paint to areas that still need it in lower engine room.
6. *Clean and apply preservative on wrenches in lower engine room (clean with wire brushes wipe down and then apply the preservative.  (Wrenches brought up from engine room to the black smiths for preservation treatments).
   
7. *Repaint fire reel in lower engine room red
8. After wrenches dry, place them in the tools rack on both sides of the lower engine room.
9. Start painting floor of lower engine room.(Will need to be done after all other painting on the walls and wrenches are completed.Then wire wheel and wipe down the floors to prepare for painting with tile red color.
10. *Start painting main engine room floor on port side tile red
    
11. *Paint Aft turret room, primer has already been applied
12. Paint Valve knob red on heater / radiator of the chart room.
13. *Re-paint inside of vents  the red color (On upper aft deck)
14. *Paint up pipes, water tanks and other equipment on aft upper deck (White)?(Cream)?  Most were painted but still have more to complete).
    
15. *Scrape, clean and Paint the section already painted blue in the Aft Cargo hold (the one on the tour near engine boiler room with ladder leading up to the pump room. (Primer was painted on all of them and most have had the first coat of paint applied).
    
16. Clean, scrape, seal with silicone and paint upper engine room walk way on starboard side (using a coat of rust inhibitor paint).
17. Paint forward deck-anti slip sand in paint.
18. Paint hull black!Sometime in June when it’s warmer

     

    • Mechanical Repairs:
      

1. *Wire low voltage system with button from the compressor for the whistle to the pilot house. 
   (The whistle blows nicely now)!!
   
2. Repair / replace site glass tubes in engine room 
   
3. *Replace missing light bulb guards (red) clean, paint and install when found.  (Some have been found and painted).  (More need to be found painted and installed back on light figures).
   
4. *Remove / lift life boats to replace rebuild cradles that are under them both.  (Dale Kosiol, Tom Brueshaber, Dave Olsen and Ken Knutson completed the port side life boat cradles only). 
5. Clean brass fittings in lower engine room including brass fitting from paint.
6. *Check and repair small air leak in piping by compressor??  (No leaks at this time)!
   
7. *Clean old silicone sealer, clean, apply new silicone sealer and paint band around lower part of the smoke stack.
8. Main door threshold – fill in with sand, seal crack to keep water out and possible raise area to prevent tripping.Mark area with brighter yellow paint??
   

    

    

   • General Repairs, Fabrication, Large and new tasks:
     

1. *Remove shingles from one display first, clean and prepare roof for painting-Paint grey.
2. *Start demolition on Haz Mat Room – (Dean Soderbeck and Randy Flacksbarth got a good start ont he room)
   
3. *Chart Room door replacement – Dale Koziol
4. *Fabricate and build new “Meteor” signs (on top of pilot house – Dale Koziol
5. Repair broken chain on railing - port bow
6. *Clean up old concrete in the crew’s quarters 2^nd mate room – haul it out with buckets and shovel

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This year not only do we have our large list of tasks to complete we also have another project coming up on the horizon.  The black part of the hull has not been painted for very long time.  If fact nobody knows when the last time it was painted.  This is going to take many gallons of special paint.  Superior Public Museums is conducting a special program to encourage folks to Buy and Sponsor a Gallon Bucket of Paint to help restore  and preserve the hull of the world’s last Whaleback ship.  The cost of sponsoring a bucket of paint is $50.00 per bucket.   The bucket of paint will be displayed in the tower of "Thanks" in the S.S. Meteor Museum with your name on it throughout the 2014 Touring season.  This will provide notoriety for the folks that helped with purchasing the paint and ultimately the new look of the painted hull.  Personally I have purchased two buckets of paint so far.  I’m in a contest with another guy to see who will purchase the most buckets of paint! I encourage and challenge you to do the same.

The GLSPS, other organizations and friends of the S.S. Meteor will be doing the dirty deed of applying the paint.  Although, you can paint your own bucket of paint on the hull if you prefer only when we finally obtain enough paint to start and finish it within a few days.  So, that being said, please purchase a bucket of paint.  We certainly hope to have enough paint by summer when it is a much better time to apply the paint and for it to dry properly. 

A few of you have purchased a bucket of paint already.  The folks that have not purchased a bucket of paint yet and would like to you can contact either one of us.  (Sara Blanck of the SPM or Phil Kerber from the GLSPS).  Contact information is below.  We will be happy to take your verbal commitment however, we ask that you pay for it at the project when you arrive.  If you cannot participate in the project and would still like to sponsor a bucket of paint, we can take cash, checks or credit cards.   Special handling may be required for mail in checks.

So please step up and buy your sponsored bucket of paint today!  Here is the link to the SPM website.  Purchase and Sponsor a Bucket of Paint  

Thank you very much for volunteering in the past and hope you will join us again this year for the Summer S.S. Meteor Preservation Painting Project.

We hope to see new and familiar faces again this year.

Phil Kerber

GLSPS President

pkerber@glsps.org

Cell 612-720-2825612-720-2825

Sara Blanck

Director - Superior Public Museums

sbb@superiorpublicmuseums.org