FIELD AND SHOP SERVICES PROVIDED The company is well equipped, knowledgeable and practiced in the provision of the following conservation services equally well on-site and at our large shops. INDUSTRIAL COATINGS Surface Preparation Surface preparations for optimal bonding of coatings by…
1943 German 88mm PAK 43/41 Anti-Tank Gun restored for the U.S. Army Heritage Museum and Education Center in Carlisle Pennsylvania. Military Artifact Conservation The restoration work was performed during 2003 by: Thomas Podnar, Robert Lodge, Curtis McCartney, and Mark Erdmann of McKay…
McKay Lodge Conservation's stone conservator Marcin Pikus traveled to the American southwest to treat an untitled travertine sculpture by Doug Hyde in the plaza in front of the Pete V. Domenici U.S. Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. First, a bit about…
Cast-Iron Fountains with Zinc Statues Sculpture Conservator Tom Podnar is mentioned in Carol Grissom’s talk “Toward Better Treatment of Cast-Iron Fountains with Zinc Statues”. Tom is skilled at the traditional and difficult technique of lead-tin soldering which is the most…
1943 German 88mm PAK 43/41 Anti-Tank Gun Military Artifact Conservation Free-Up Recoil Spades for Deployment: The pivot shaft of each recoil spade was immovable from corrosion. Repeated work with heat, chilling and penetrants could not free them. Eventually, the steel…
Painted Outdoor Sculpture, Outdoor Painted Sculpture: August 15, 2016: Emmett Lodge (left) and Marcin Pikus (right) began the Batcolumn refinishing at the 100 foot level. McKay Lodge conservators completed a GSA contract project during the fall of 2016 in the windy city of…
1943 German 88mm PAK 43/41 Anti-Tank Gun Military Artifact Conservation Removal and Condition of the Gun Cradle: An important part of the work for preservation was to gain access to the area under the cradle and to the top of…
OBJECTS CONSERVATION: The Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows, NY awarded a $103,588.00 contract to McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. to restore and prepare for display in the Queens Museum of Art an enormous painted plaster topographic map of…
Keeping up with the demands of art conservation projects sometimes means acquiring new conservation equipment. We purchased a new Ford F350 extended body cargo van to join our earlier two identical model vans to make a company fleet of three.…
Big projects require big equipment. To help with that, McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory recently purchased some large new conservation equipment: Grove RT518 Crane: The center purchased a Grove RT518 18 ton rough terrain (RT) crane. Yes, it is every conservator’s…