[TheForge] Re: trade secrets

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On Nov 26, 2006, at 2:11 AM, Mike wrote:

>   And they sell "galvanized pails" that are
> actually pails made from galvanized sheet and made water-tight with
> paint-on stickum. So nobody knows just what "galvanize" means.  But in
> the hand-forged marine hardware context, and in the big-tank-of-metal
> context, galvanized means hot-dip.  No frog's legs.
>
>

There is a bucket mfg (Behrens) in Winona, MN that still hot dips 
buckets and related items, funnels etc. At least they still did the 
last time I was there maybe five years ago. It's about a block away 
from Hossfeld Mfg. If I see they guy in the near future (and still 
remember) I'll ask him what the "shiny stuff" might have been. I wonder 
if it could have been some kind of flux?

Here are some of the buckets/pails they make...

http://www.homeandbeyond.com/pails--utility-galvanized.html

Bob