Thanks, Jay! You da man!
You know, I called 3, THREE!, companies here in Central Ohio who advertise
this service and at each one, they were going to have the "salesman call you
back". No one has ever called back. This is why I always ask for
recommendations for things, it's just a waste of time to call and wait for
businesses who make me work for their attention. I'll call them and see
what I can setup. We have aluminum rivets but are slowly replacing 1 at a
time to make it acceptable to the acid. If it goes well I have 140 feet of
25G that I might have done in a few months.
Thanks for the info!
Bob-
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jay slough
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:09 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Hot Dip Galvanizing
I live between Cincinnati and Dayton, OH. Last year I had some Rohn 25,
Rohn 45 sections and misc other tower parts regalvanized. I currently have
another batch of stuff, including 70 feet of Rohn 45 being regalvanized.
Witt is the name of the company in Cincinnati that is doing the work. I
think their new name is AZZ, since Witt recently sold off their fabrication
subsidiary. The first question I was asked when I pulled into the lot,
after the yard foreman spotted me was, "Is their any aluminum in that
tower?" They had problems with the rivits melting and screwing up the dip
tank. The process as previously described is what they use, I have taken
some fairly heavily rusted stuff in before and it comes back looking good.
(Prime example was an old milk can, I had cleaned up this way for my wife.)
The quality is acceptable, but since they are not tower manufacturers,
sections do come back with zinc splinters a plenty and usually one side,
the bottom when it comes out of the tank, has some globs that need to be
removed. I had them redo a Rohn 25 for me shortly after I moved from MO to
OH and it lasted over 20 years, just beginning to show surface rust at the
welds and on cross members. Current Costs: $150 minimum charge and that
appears to cover about 340 pounds.
Jay, K4ZLE
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