TURTLE wrote:
"Mikey S." wrote in message
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I understand your concern but isn't this getting carried away? I believe the
guy is welding ONE nut to ONE washer and doing it outside.
Even if he screws it up and has to weld TWO..I don't think he will get enough
zinc to matter.
Unless the nut is the prop nut for a tanker or battleship :-)

FWIW..Ive welded a few small galvanized objects with no ill effects noted.

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Mikey S.
http://www.mike721.com



Mikey , This may seem to you as a getting carried away here but if this fellow
weld a nut with no effect today and then next week says well i think I'm going
to build me a new trailor for my truck and will be using the Galv. metal. If he
did not get told about the effects and what to do. he will walk off into a real
problem down the road. The discussion here is really to just know about the
problems that can come up down the road with welding the Galv. Metal and getting
Industrial Neumonia. I have a friend years back that spent 3 days in the
hospital building 3 trailors for his company to haul shingles off with and would
not have been sent to the hospital if he just had 3 - 6 oz. cartons of milk. A
$1.50 worth of milk would have stopped a $3,000.00 doctor and hospital bill and
also a week off work to boot. Everytime he welds Galv. metal from now on, he has
a carton of milk handy.

Everything you say on the Newsgroups can effect someone down the road
somewhere's.

TURTLE



The milk thing is interesting; thanks. I soaked the nut and washer in
some phosphoric acid and etched all the zinc off so I can use a 7014 or
6013 electrode instead of 6011, so it's a moot point -- this time. If I
ever have to weld more than a piddly little amount of galvanized steel,
I'll drink a bunch of milk *and* see if I can find a respirator.

Bob