I bought a Dremel tool with the flex shaft attachment.
Only way I could find to do it.
-Ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lro@works.team.net [mailto:owner-lro@works.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Tackley, John
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: 'lro@works.team.net'
> Subject: RE: LRO: Re: galvie / paint
>
>
> ...and do tell, Ben, how exactly did you clean out the scuttle vent hinge
> holes? I can't get a drill near them! I'm leaving mine bare on
> the inside
> but painting it on the outside...no warping here either (unless you count
> that the operator at the galv. yard dropped a 60 ft high voltage
> transmission tower into the vat "ON TOP" of my bulkhead! ...that
> did take a
> bit-o-bending, what I call a "forming adjustment", to correct...and they
> didn't charge me for that dip!
>
> JT/ric
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> On the galvanizing front, it worked quite nicely - no significant
> warpage to
> speak of. The only problems I had were that there are lots of places for
> the zinc to puddle, and so there was some grinding to be done to clean it
> up. Also, all the "tubes" (bolt holes, front vent flap mount holes, etc)
> filled up with zinc and they were a cast iron b!+(# to clean out.
>
> -Ben
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