User talk:Marjamar

WHAT IS SANDBLASTING?
I coined this phrase some 10 years ago or so, using it one my sandblasting business website Sandblast.NET. I've noticed recently, it is now being used by Wisegeek.com What is Sandblasting?. My website was inactive for a number of years as I just didn't bother to keep it up and working. These past couple of months, I decided to get it back up and have begun rebuilding pages, one of which is my "What is Sandblasting?" page What is Sandblasting?. Since Wisegeek is high in Google Pagerank, it seems my exposure for this page will be very limited. I have already made suggestions to Wisegeek to modify their "What is Sandblasting?" page, as it was very inaccurate and fundamentally misleading. I noticed they have taken the time to research content for their page and modified it, but it is still not very good. I'm just wondering about contributing here, as Wikipedia is obviously ranked higher, it perhaps could help promote the sandblasting trade better generally if a more accurate picture of sandblasting were provided by someone who has actively been in the trade for over 40 years.

Looking at the format and this editor I'm writing this with, it would be some time before I would be able to contribute worthwhile information in an orderly concise way using these tools and outline. So, even though I have some interest in promoting my trade, it may be that I'll need to hand-holding and along the way.

This "User talk" article is part to this process. As I will post this, look and modify it over time. Once I see this article seems to fit into a workable format, I will offer it as content under the major heading of "Sandblasting" -- Which by the way is the actual technical term for both the trade and the process first conceived by Benjamin Chew Tilghman. An interesting sidebar would be the fact that much of my personal family history is wrapped up in sandblasting. My great uncle was the first to become involved with it back in the navy. This was in the early 1930's and he actually help the Navy to develop the process to be used on their ships and other steel. From him, my father learned the trade back in the late 1930's and over the years many of our extended family members have become sandblasters. My father and his brother actually designed and patented SANDBLAST NOZZLE Alvin L. Marjamathe first sandblasting nozzle with a "Wet" attachment which is still in use today.

I'll post this "as is" and will do edits to see effects and add content.

--Rodger (talk) 14:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)