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Tulsa’s Golden Driller to get new paint job, protective coating
 February 25, 2011
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Tulsa’s iconic Golden Driller is getting a new, improved look.
The Tulsa County fair board approved an agreement with the Bill Haynes Co. on Friday to paint and help maintain the 76-foot-high structure at Expo Square.
Crews are scheduled to begin work Monday.
“We’re going to provide a lifetime protective finish to the Driller, a coating that when finished will look very much like paint only about 10 times thicker than paint,” said Bill Haynes, the company’s president.
“We’ll totally waterproof the surface and protect the Golden Driller for many, many years against any water, decay or depreciation.”
The agreement approved by the fair board calls for the Bill Haynes Co. to do the work for free in exchange for the use of the Golden Driller image in the company’s promotional materials for the next three years.
Expo Square will have the final say on the images used.
“I think it is a very good deal for the Golden Driller and Expo Square,” said Mark Andrus, Expo Square’s president and CEO.
Haynes said his company will apply an “ultra coating” to the Tulsa landmark that will not change its mustard color.
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