Centre stand finish

[hawkie197]

The feet on my roadster centre stand were badly worn and were not supporting the bike properly on a level surface, I thought that I would build them up with the arc welder only to find that it had been galvanised, is this the correct finish?
I have an MDS that has a galvanised engine cradle.
Cheers Pete from the Antipodes

[John Wakefield]

The feet on my roadster centre stand were badly worn and were not supporting the bike properly on a level surface, I thought that I would build them up with the arc welder only to find that it had been galvanised, is this the correct finish?
I have an MDS that has a galvanised engine cradle.
Cheers Pete from the Antipodes

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Just grind the galvanising away before you weld otherwise it will spatter. Might be best to weld on some new feet to give a bit more lift.

[Colin Sparrow]

I've never seen a reference to Greeves using galvanising, and certainly my 32DC stand hasn't been so treated, just painted.

I had the same problem with worn "feet" on the stand making things a bit wobbly. I simply bolted on a couple of rectangular plates the same size as the feet, and with the bolt heads countersunk. That way the plates are sacrificial and can readily be renewed when they wear.

[Phil Hyde]

Galvanisationing.................

Seen plenty of cradle assemblies galvanised. As to whether this was a factory spec I have no idea. Perhaps a cradle assembly drawing will yield an answer??

[Guest]

I thought that the cradle plates and the centre stand were zinc plated. As were most of the spacers?

Keith

[dave higgins]

You can`t really answer that can you.................... but i will...galvanising is a process of of applying a protective coating of zinc over steel or iron, to prevent corrosion.....

[Brian Catt]

So why don't they call it Zincanising then?

[dave higgins]

So as people like you don`t get confused....

[Brian Catt]

Here's me thinking I'd get the low-down on galvanic deposition.......

[hawkie197]

Galvanised or Zinc plated

Thanks John, Colin,Phil, Keith, Dave and Brian for your imput, the finish on my MD not MDS cradle is definately galvanising because of the silver crystalline apearance.
As to what the centre stand is finished in, when I welded it, it was the same as welding galvanised pipe with the yellowish oxide produced, but it doesn't look like galvanising, so Keith must be right in that it is zinc plated, it doesn't chip off, in fact it is very difficult to remove . Cheers Pete from the Antipodes

[Colin Sparrow]

Greeves' initial preparation of steel components before painting was called "Bonderising" - although what it actually consisted of I'm not altogether sure.

[John Wakefield]

Greeves' initial preparation of steel components before painting was called "Bonderising" - although what it actually consisted of I'm not altogether sure.

This would appear to answer your question Colin http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bonderising

[dave higgins]

Hi hawkie, galvanizing is the process, zinc is the protective coating....

[Guest]

Hi hawkie, galvanizing is the process, zinc is the protective coating....

It's interesting, it seems that the term galvanising is out of fashion. All the stuff I designed for decades was always quoted as BZP or Zinc plating.
Same thing tho'. Grind it off and weld away .....
Keith

[hawkie197]

Centre stand correct finish?

Hi all, I asked Rob Thornton to try and confirm the correct finish from the factory drawings, it appears that early stands are painted and the later stands are in fact galvanised, he is still trying to determine the change over date.
As to the different processes, zinc plating is applied in a plating bath similar to chrome plating, where as with hot dipped galvanising the articles are immersed in a bath of molten zinc. Cheers Pete from the Antipodes.