[TowerTalk] Experience with Sacrificial Zinc?

Lux, Jim jim at luxfamily.com
Mon Aug 9 17:12:07 EDT 2021


On 8/9/21 1:13 PM, Máximo EA1DDO_HK1H wrote:
> I think so.
>
> Brite-Zinc seems to me like an anti-rust paint, for protection. Usually on steel.
> Urethane aliphatic enamel is a synthetic cover to give an extra protection layer on the top of the zinc.
>
> Professional towers are like that, hot dip galvanizing, then several layers of that urethane paint.
> That procedure gives you years and years of protection.


Kind of like chromate primer on aircraft


or, for that matter, the treatment on reinforcing steel in concrete 
exposed to corrosive conditions.




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