Aluminum fuel tanks can corrode in a marine environment, though much depends on how well they are protected belowdecks from salt water. Shielded from briny water, tanks can last forever, but on some ...

Painting the steelworks gas tanks a tall order It takes about a decade to paint the Sydney Harbour Bridge but it may take even long to paint the two giant gas tanks at Port Kembla's ...

On one calm April day, crews will arrive in South Baltimore and tie into man lifts, then rise 100 feet to start painting blue crabs, racehorses and bombs bursting on the city skyline. Their canvas ...

The Guam Power Authority will spend about $4.1 million for extra refurbishment work and removal of lead-based paint from a ...

The natural gas tank on Dorchester’s Commercial Point is getting a touch-up. Workers are repainting the rainbow swashes of color on the tank, and have been climbing 14 stories high to power-wash its ...

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Heavily armored tanks can't protect the soldiers inside from chemical weapon attacks without some outside help. The British military has teamed up with a paint manufacturer to make a special coating ...

The space agency stopped painting its shuttles' fuel tank because the white paint added about 600 pounds of weight. Rating: In operation for 30 years, NASA's space shuttle was described by the space ...

The space agency stopped painting its shuttles' fuel tank because the white paint added about 600 pounds of weight. This claim is true. During the first two space shuttle launches, STS-1 and STS-2, ...