Galvanization in your garage

[Kovanca Polock]

Galvanization, in the garage, with your own hands, without using an electric apparatus!

[DIYer]

Thanks Kovanca Polock! We've added your Galvanizing Method to our Miscellaneous category,
as well as to your builder page: Kovanca Polock's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Galvanizing Method by Kovanca Polock

tags: hand tools

[Christophe Mineau]

Hi Kovanca, thanks for the post, it looks promising.
Can you translate what exactly are all the products you are using ?
The glass bottle, the blue plastic bottle ?

[DIYSwede]

Assumed process:
Dissolving a handful of cast zinc parts in app 30% Sulphuric acid solution (battery acid electrolyte), adding a lidful of booze, let parts soak in solution for 10 min.
Dissolve a few sporkfuls of content from blue bottle - probably Sodiumhydroxide, dunk parts in, then rinse in a good enuff Sodium Carbonate solution.
Rinse and repeat until result is satisfactory. Final clean in tap water. YMMV
Some videos just raise more questions than they answer.

[Kovanca Polock]

Battery electrolyte, zinc, baking soda, industrial alcohol, alkali. Glass jar, plastic and iron bowl

[Jon]

Congratulations Kovanca Polock - your Galvanizing Method is the Homemade Tool of the Week!

Another good week with a lot of strong contenders, but this is an accessible metal finishing technique that will likely be used a lot around here.

Some more nice builds from this week:

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Kovanca Polock - we've added your tool entry to our All Homemade Tool of the Week winners post. And, you'll now notice the wrench-on-pedestal award in the awards showcase in your postbit, visible beneath your username:



You'll be receiving a $25 online gift card, in your choice of Amazon, PayPal, or bitcoin. Please PM me your current email address and award choice and I'll get it sent over right away.

Nice work!

[Drew1966]

1. The parts to be coated weren’t properly cleaned first. Acetone and 0000 steel wool would do the best job there.
2. As it wasn’t electroplated, the counting will wear off relatively easily.
3. The stainless steel scouter is overkill, 0000 steel wool would be a better choice
4. What alcohol? All I saw was Zinc, Acid, Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Carbonate.

[Tuomas]

Nice tip for the ones that doesn't know this.

I started to wonder that is it really so?
That they didn't teach you this at school. At age 14-15?

Basic chemistry and physics are part of learning programme here.

[dlogan_413]

Thank you for posting this trick. It will come in handy around my shop especially the way the prices of galvanized bolts & everything else has gone up in this world. Galvanization, in the garage, with your own hands, without using an electric apparatus!

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