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Old 15 October 2007, 08:28   #1
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Galvanised Chain.

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A neighbour of mine made a passing comment to me over the weekend that he’d managed to get hold of some hot dip galvanised anchor chain at a very good price.

I didn’t think anything of it until later on when I thought:-

How the hell do you hot dip Galvanise chain without it forming into a solid lump when the solution hardens off?

Or am I just being daft?


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Old 15 October 2007, 10:55   #2
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I'd agree with you, you're just daft
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A neighbour of mine made a passing comment to me over the weekend that he’d managed to get hold of some hot dip galvanised anchor chain at a very good price.

I didn’t think anything of it until later on when I thought:-

How the hell do you hot dip Galvanise chain without it forming into a solid lump when the solution hardens off?

Or am I just being daft?


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Asked the question of the manufacturers when I ordered chains for my ketch many years ago. The chains are put in a 'tumbler', or revolving mesh drum, which is dipped in the molten zinc and rotated after removal until the coating hardens.

I had it re-galvanised in a place in Glasgow. They didn't have a tumbler, just hit it with hammers till all the links freed up. Not as good though as there were bits that weren't covered - however it didn't go rusty. I presume the surrounding zinc was protection enough.
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How the hell do you hot dip Galvanise chain without it forming into a solid lump when the solution hardens off?
I thought they took all the chain into space and did it in a zero G factory?

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The chains are put in a 'tumbler', or revolving mesh drum,
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In fact its a 4 stage process.

Stage 1 - Dismantle Chain.
Stage 2 - Hot dip galvanise.
Stage 3 - let it cool.
Stage 4 - Reassemble

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Asked the question of the manufacturers when I ordered chains for my ketch many years ago. The chains are put in a 'tumbler', or revolving mesh drum, which is dipped in the molten zinc and rotated after removal until the coating hardens.

I had it re-galvanised in a place in Glasgow. They didn't have a tumbler, just hit it with hammers till all the links freed up. Not as good though as there were bits that weren't covered - however it didn't go rusty. I presume the surrounding zinc was protection enough.

The galvanising should protect the uncoated areas, because the zinc is a less noble material, the parent material becomes the cathode and the zinc works as the anode, the water is the electrolight, completing the corrosion circuit.
With bare parent material exposed this will excelerate giving a shorter life to the chain.
Sorry to be a saddo, but working with cathodic protection is part of my job.
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In fact its a 4 stage process.

Stage 1 - Dismantle Chain.
Stage 2 - Hot dip galvanise.
Stage 3 - let it cool.
Stage 4 - Reassemble


Dismantle the chain - what with a hacksaw???
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Dismantle the chain - what with a hacksaw???
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Dismantle the chain - what with a hacksaw???
Nah! A magician.

I've seen 'em do it with big steel rings. It's what they do at the weekends. During the week they all work with chain galvanisers.
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Nah! A magician.

I've seen 'em do it with big steel rings. It's what they do at the weekends. During the week they all work with chain galvanisers.
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Hot Dip

Thair used to be a hot dip galv works at Cowes a few years ago the chain
would be dipped in the pickel tank first to clean it then lowered into the
galv tank on a hoist
on removal it would be taped to remove the dross
the hot dip always seamed to last a lot longer than the crap that most
chandlers sell lately
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