(ET) Fwd: A new coat of paint....

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From: Ben Griffith <griffithba gmail com>
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: (ET) A new coat of paint....
To: harry landis <hlandis hotmail com>

After reading this thread I fired off an inquiry to Bay State Galvanizing (Everett, Mass.) to see what was involved and what the ballpark cost would be. I have a mower deck and snowblower that are both pretty rusty, so I asked about both. I mentioned the width and the approximate weight of each. Within minutes I got a response back saying it would be in the neighborhood of $450-500, and that all I'd have to do is bring all the parts in and the acid bath would take care of all the rust/paint removal (the part I dread doing manually if I clean/paint them myself). That's for around 300 pounds of deck and snowblower parts. I haven't actually used the snowblower yet (having just entered into the ET world over the summer), so I wrote back to ask how much just the mower deck would be, and how much more to prime/paint. Haven't heard back on that yet.

-Ben

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:54 AM, harry landis <hlandis hotmail com> wrote:

You can't paint galvanized steel if the zinc has had enough time to oxidize, as the paint won't stick. But if you do it quick enough it works. I don't know if the time is seconds, hours or days. My local galvanizing place offers to paint it when they finish galvanizing. They are V&S Galvanizing, with several locations nationwide.
For others, try the Yellow Pages or Mr Google. He knows a lot of stuff.

Harry Landis

> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:44:32 -0800
> From: daveb drizzle com
> To: cz alembic crystel com
> CC: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu

> Subject: Re: (ET) A new coat of paint....
>
> the yellow pages under galvinizing or metals perhaps
>
> Christopher Zach wrote:
> > harry landis wrote:
> >> I've mentioned it before, but I don't think anyone but me has done it-
> >> Find the nearest place that does hot dip galvanizing, unbolt
> >> everything unboltable from the deck, and give them all the pieces to
> >> galvanize. Any pinholes will be filled, the reinforcing angles will
> >> get even more firmly attached, and it will never rust again. Some
> >> places can even paint it, but there's no real reason to do so. You'll
> >> get used to the zinc color in a couple of days. Replace all the old
> >> bolts with stainless.
> >
> > Hm. Is there a problem painting zinc; will normal latex paint stick to
> > it?
> >
> > How does one go about finding a hot dip galvanizing shop?
> >
> > Chris
> >
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