Houston54, I don't know if you already have the strips or not. If you are planning to use Mar-K steel bed strips, be aware that they already have a zinc coating, electrogalvanize, and it may interfere with the hot dip process. They may have to remove the electrogalvanize coating first before hot dip galvanize. I don't know anything about the galvanize process, just advising you of the coating that is already there.

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