Want to pool your anchor chain with mine for re-galvanising?

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I have ~40 m of anchor chain I am taking to BE Wedge near Birmingham in the next few weeks to have re-galvanised. Their minimum order is for 85kg so I need (i calculate) about another 36kgs to make up this minimum. (about 26m of 8mm chain)

Anyone want to pool their chain with mine?

You would have to drop it off either in Henley on Thames or Worcester then I will take it on to Wedge, and we split the cost pro-rata to length of chain and you collect again.
As it all has to go in the back of my car there is a limit to how much I can take though!

I will need to update but when I was considering it last year they said the charge was £1.15 p/kilo + VAT., a minimum charge of £96.00 plus VAT,

8mm chain is approx 1.35kg / metre so by my reckoning that means the re-galv is about half the price of new chain

Turnaround - 10/15 working days, approx.
 
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skyflyer said:
I will need to update but when I was considering it last year they said the charge was £1.15 p/kilo + VAT., a minimum charge of £96.00 plus VAT,
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For what it's worth, I pay 50p /kilo with effectively no minimum order by taking stuff to my friendly local agricultural blacksmiths (sheep pens, that sort of thing) and putting it in with their regular weekly load. The only disadvantage is that the turnaround is eight days: it goes one Tuesday and comes back teh next.
 
JumbleDuck said:
For what it's worth, I pay 50p /kilo with effectively no minimum order by taking stuff to my friendly local agricultural blacksmiths (sheep pens, that sort of thing) and putting it in with their regular weekly load. The only disadvantage is that the turnaround is eight days: it goes one Tuesday and comes back teh next.
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I can only refer you to countless previous threads here on the subject! BE Wedge has the only chain galvanising equipment in the UK that will enable the links to come out fully galvanised but not welded together. If you take a chain and dump it i galvanising bath you will end up with links stick together which whilst easy enough t bash apart with a tap or two of a hammer, will leave the space where they were in contact with a a small non galvanised spot. If your chain wasn't too bad before you might get away with it - personally I'd rather not take the chance!
 
skyflyer said:
I can only refer you to countless previous threads here on the subject! BE Wedge has the only chain galvanising equipment in the UK that will enable the links to come out fully galvanised but not welded together. If you take a chain and dump it i galvanising bath you will end up with links stick together which whilst easy enough t bash apart with a tap or two of a hammer, will leave the space where they were in contact with a a small non galvanised spot. If your chain wasn't too bad before you might get away with it - personally I'd rather not take the chance!
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Good advice, thanks. I have only had non-chainy things galvanised.
 
skyflyer said:
I can only refer you to countless previous threads here on the subject! BE Wedge has the only chain galvanising equipment in the UK that will enable the links to come out fully galvanised but not welded together. If you take a chain and dump it i galvanising bath you will end up with links stick together which whilst easy enough t bash apart with a tap or two of a hammer, will leave the space where they were in contact with a a small non galvanised spot. If your chain wasn't too bad before you might get away with it - personally I'd rather not take the chance!
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This simply isn't true. Several galvanizing plants have centrifuges, and its alos possible to do chain quote well without one.
I galvanize my own chain every few years (calibrated, fits gypsy fine), and see many others done OK too.

That it is possible to make a mess of it doesn't mean its mandatory!
 
MM5AHO said:
This simply isn't true. Several galvanizing plants have centrifuges, and its alos possible to do chain quote well without one.
I galvanize my own chain every few years (calibrated, fits gypsy fine), and see many others done OK too.

That it is possible to make a mess of it doesn't mean its mandatory!
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I don't doubt that what you say is true, but I suggest you may have access to more information than many of us! Before I had my first chain regalvanised, subsequently reported in YM, I telephoned four or five local galvanisers in the Merseyside/North Wales area. Every one of them told me they would not do chain and advised me to use BE Wedge at Willenhall.
 
We had ours re-galvanized last year and I would not recommend it to anyone.

There were 50 links stuck together which I spent hours breaking apart and then cleaning up the high spots with a Dremel. I missed three that were stuck together in the first 5 metres and these jammed in the Gypsy and the motor failed. I found that the shock of it jambing had vibrated off a magnet that ruined the armature. Luckily I had a spare motor, but a month later the same thing happened - another magnet fell off!!!

I made up a new motor out of the two ruined units and found the cause of the jambing. Everything has worked fine for the whole season, but I would say the chain doesn't seem to "FLOW" as well. I guess because after re-galvanizing its no longer "Calibrated Chain".
 
sailinglegend420 said:
We had ours re-galvanized last year and I would not recommend it to anyone.

There were 50 links stuck together which I spent hours breaking apart and then cleaning up the high spots with a Dremel. I missed three that were stuck together in the first 5 metres and these jammed in the Gypsy and the motor failed. I found that the shock of it jambing had vibrated off a magnet that ruined the armature. Luckily I had a spare motor, but a month later the same thing happened - another magnet fell off!!!

I made up a new motor out of the two ruined units and found the cause of the jambing. Everything has worked fine for the whole season, but I would say the chain doesn't seem to "FLOW" as well. I guess because after re-galvanizing its no longer "Calibrated Chain".
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That's why having it done by Wedge is recommended. I have had two done, 50 and 60 metres, with total success. No stuck links and runs through the gypsies perfectly.
 
I suspect that many galvanizers get concentrated on tonnage (some do 400 toones a week), and do not want small fiddly orders.
That's different to "Cannot do it", but from the purchasers viewpoint is about the same as "can't" !

What they perhaps forget is that typically yacht owners are either relatively wealthy, or are influential. In these cases if getting good service, they tell others - good advertising.

What is true is that Wedge are better at chain than most.
 
Vyv - it was the info on your site that led me to Wedge as well as other threads on here over the years. Most people who have used Wedge seem happy. As it happens we don't have a gypsy so it doesn't matter to men about calibration but I still want a decent job!
 
Well I reckon I have 40+45+8 with your 65 would be 158 would be 220kgs if its 8mm chain. Thats equivalent to two big people and I have an estate so I guess I probably could add you to it. Logistically one guy needs it back by January so we need to get a move on! Can you get it tome in next week or two?
 
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