Re: LRO: RE: Galvanizing Bulkheads

From: Todd Ondick (greylildogs@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 01:11:28 EDT

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    A few years back I had a conversation w/ Seth of British Bulldog infamy. It
    was over the fitting of a heater plug in the block of my 2.25l in
    preparation for our first winter. He says "why do you want to do that when
    you can just cut the lower rad. hose and put in an in-line heater from
    NAPA?" "'cause it's not as
    bulletproof-efficient-neato-complicated-trick-functional-whatnotandsoforth",
    says I. Hey says, "you know, all you series guys are the same." "excuse
    me?" "freakin' masochists, every one", he says. "excuse me?" "You guys, for
    some reason, make everything as complicated for yourselves as you possibly
    can. The more difficult and convoluted the better... 'This neat gadget, I
    should galvanize this, why don't I just weld that', masochists." "guilty"
    said I and I still am.

    By saying don't do it, I'm just looking out for my fellow masochists. Of
    course people will still go and dip their bulkheads... I just want them to
    know that it doesn't always turn out perfect.
    Oh, and yes, you were lucky.

    cheers,
    -todd

    BTW- after 8 hours of trying to remove that butterfly-holed little bastard
    on the side of my engine block I took the man's advice. don't even ask how
    long I've been grinding away at zinc.

    >From: "Tackley, John" <jtackley@dit.state.va.us>
    >Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
    >To: "'lro@works.team.net'" <lro@Works.Team.Net>
    >Subject: LRO: RE: Galvanizing Bulkheads
    >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:26:20 -0400
    >
    >Todd commented:
    >
    >"Don't do it!"
    >
    >
    >Gosh, Todd, guess I was very lucky when I did my bulkhead.
    >I used Industrial Galvanizing in Petersburg, Va, who claim to be the
    >largest
    >facility in the east, and I believe their claim. Their principal business
    >seemed to be dipping those huge high voltage transmission towers, (some of
    >which are so large at the base that I could walk inside of them!).
    >They did cause some repairable damage by dropping another large item (one
    >of
    >those tower sections)into the vat on top of my BH, and they completely lost
    >some small items(which they gladly paid RN prices to replace), but with a
    >zinc vat 90' long(filled with zinc heated to 450 degrees F), that was
    >understandable. They ground off resulting and inevitable slag and drips as
    >part of their QC process. One of my new gas tanks also came back with a
    >fist sized lump of zinc inside...they re-dipped several times trying to
    >melt
    >and remove it to no avail. I'll have to plasma-cut & weld-shut a hole to
    >get it out...(but let me tell you, that tank has so much zinc coating it
    >that it will probably 'never' rust!). They did not charge me for that
    >tank.
    >They were fair, responsible and did what they could to accomodate my
    >unusual
    >needs (said they had never been asked to dip a vehicle frame, for instance,
    >but they took time to examine it carefully for proper zinc access and
    >drainage holes to interior surfaces and decided the best orientation for
    >dipping it. The frame was literally a thing of beauty when I picked it
    >up.
    >So experiences vary...
    >
    >Ahhh well, opinions...like armpits and navels, everybody has one. Take
    >them
    >for what they're worth...
    >
    >JT/ric
    >

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