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[thingstodo]

Sorry I didn't respond sooner - I was offline for the day.

I had asked for 30. I guess if you don't want them all, we can pick up fewer than 30. 5 is the minimum we can pick up. We can just throw away the ones we don't want, but it's a pain to pick them up if we can't really use them,

When I had talked about it at one of the meetings, there seemed, to me, to be some interest, but no numbers were discussed. I found out on Thursday that the lockers were coming out and I picked a number. I guess I mis-interpreted. I should have gotten it added to the minutes.

The lockers are OK, but not as nice as some of the newer lockers that were claimed by different areas of the mill and underground. There is surface rust inside, near the bottom of some of them. These were used for storing street clothes during the day when everyone wears coveralls and work boots. The rust is from wet shoes, and not enough ventilation over 45 years. The lockers are original 1967 installation. They are made of gauge steel (18 gauge maybe?) with metal primer and a coat (or 6) of paint. There are scratches. There was more damage done (dents, scratches, bending) removing the lockers and moving them with a forklift than there ever was from use.

The lockers were in strings of 30 - 40. They were all riveted together, so every 6th locker was cut in half to make it easier to remove them. So there are 5 ' whole ' lockers with a 'cut in half' locker on each end. Total length of 6 feet, plus or minus a few inches, for each set of 5 lockers. That's where my description of the rough metal edges comes from. There were rivets torn out and the bolts that anchored them to the concrete were not all removed. Taking off the half-lockers on each end requires drilling out some rivets and replacing some of them with small nuts and bolts. A wrench and some pliers would get rid of the mounting bolts on the bottom. There are 5 sets to choose from. We could pick the best set(s). The surface rust on the inside would take a bit of sanding and some Tremclad (or nothing at all - its at the bottom of the inside).

If we don't pick them up, I guess I can ask the demolition foreman to get them moved to the scrap metal pile, which is where they were headed when I asked for them.

I'll send out an email to those who replied and cancel the pickup of the lockers for tomorrow morning.

Mike

[FingerTech]

Sounds like they can be cleaned up without too much work, and there was already one volunteer for that. Doesn't hurt to try them out. I'm busy tomorrow though so can't help.

[thingstodo]

By my count there were two volunteers - Andrew and Jeremy. PCS Allan's safety guy had asked for 4 guys to load, so we're one short. They are worried about us hurting ourselves loading them.

Would the best option be to slow down a bit, talk about the lockers at the next meeting, and make some firmer plans for the number of lockers and where they will be installed, etc? As I listed, the next set of lockers will be demolished in a couple of weeks.

For this weekend, the paperwork for removing the lockers from site lists 30 lockers, not 5 (was there a decision on IIRC about how many?). I have had hassles in the past when the paperwork does not match. I think I'll let these 30 go to the scrap steel pile. I hate not following through, but I'll survive.