Galvanised Bulkhead

[sid65]

Hi I have a question that you have all heard before so sorry, I am rebuilding my 90 and have brought a new galv chassis I am now thinking of getting my bulkhead galvanised does any one know how much this will cost and who to take it too who does a good job as I have heard stories of them warping under the heat.Thanks in advance

[LR90]

Would help a little if you put an approx location in your profile. FWIW I used Wessex galv in Soton (they have other sites) and am still very pleased. can't recall costs, order of £60 but had to get it shotblasted elsewhere first (same estate though). From experience I'd say the manual (and forklift) handling are more likely to cause distortion than the galv process.

[nino]

i used them to do my bulkhead, there good at doin lr parts as they also do parts for ashtree landrover

[sid65]

thanks for the advice got a price £110 plus vat for them to shot blast and galvanise

[Litch]

That doesn't sound very cheap.

Someone on one of the forums was saying only last week that he paid £65 for his bulkhead to be done and he was very happy with the result, I followed it up by saying that I paid £60 (inc VAT) for a whole pile of parts (body-cappings, tailgate liner, bumper etc etc) to be done at East Anglian Galvanising in Sawtry a few months ago. I should imagine the amount of parts I had done would be almost equivelant to a bulkhead and included prep, I was also very happy with the finish & service I recieved.

As a comparison, Ashtree quoted me £130 just to have my cappings galvanised. I know they do an all-in service and would have dealt with any quality control issues (had they arrisen) but that is still twice as much money for about a third of the parts.