Grizzly Targets Hot-dip Galvanize all our target systems to prevent corrosion of the mechanisms and ensure that you get a rust-free target for years!
**AR500 Strike Faces are painted, NOT galvanized.**
- Pre-inspection – where the fabricated structural steel is viewed to ensure it has, if necessary, the proper venting and draining holes, bracing, and overall design characteristics necessary to yield a quality galvanized coating
- Cleaning – steel is immersed in a caustic solution to remove organic material such as grease and dirt, followed by dipping in an acid bath (hydrochloric or sulfuric) to remove mill scale and rust, and finally lowered into a bath of flux that promotes zinc & steel reaction and retards further oxidation of the steel (steel will not react with zinc unless it is perfectly clean)
- Galvanizing – the clean steel is lowered into a kettle containing 850 f molten zinc where the steel and zinc metallurgically react to form three zinc-iron intermetallic layers and one pure zinc layer
- Final Inspection – the newly galvanized steel is sight-inspected (if it looks good, it is), followed up by measurement of coating thickness with a magnetic thickness gauge
- Bridge & highway (reinforcing steel for decks and column concrete, girders, stringers, light and signposts, guardrail, fencing),
- water & wastewater treatment plants (walkway grating/expanded metal, handrails)
- architectural (facades, exposed structural steel, lentils),
- parking garages (reinforcing steel for concrete decks, exposed structural steel columns and barriers),
- pulp & paper plants (structural steel, walkways, handrail),
- oems (motor housings, electrical cabinets, frames, heat exchanger coils),
- electrical utilities (transmission towers, distribution poles, substations, wind turbine poles),
- communication (cell towers),
- rail transportation (poles, switchgear, miscellaneous hardware),
- chemical/petro-chemical (pipeline hardware, manufacturing buildings, storage tanks, walkways),
- recreation (boat trailers, stadiums, arenas, racetracks), and many more.