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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3188592, member: 68"]For what it's worth to galvanize steel, sheets are heated to nearly the melting point of zinc and then they are immersed in liquid zinc. Now days this is a continuous process with long coils passing through long furnaces before running into the bath. In WW II they were most probably heated and then lowered in in batches. </p><p><br /></p><p>Temperature of the metal is the primary determinant of how thick the zinc remains on the steel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3188592, member: 68"]For what it's worth to galvanize steel, sheets are heated to nearly the melting point of zinc and then they are immersed in liquid zinc. Now days this is a continuous process with long coils passing through long furnaces before running into the bath. In WW II they were most probably heated and then lowered in in batches. Temperature of the metal is the primary determinant of how thick the zinc remains on the steel.[/QUOTE]
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