Glavanized elbows?
 

Well the other day I took a trip to homedepot and was looking for some cheap pipe elbows to do a pretty ghetto manifold out of. I saw some 1 1/4 elbos and they seemed to fit perfect for their sizes. But all they had was galvanized, so I'm wondering now, will the zinc coating hurt the turbo if it melts off? Or is it really not that big of a deal? Or should I just return them and look elsewhere for some regular black iron elbows?

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there like $3-5 just about anywhere on the net for non ghetto elbow's why would you even bother. hell your probly even loosing money going the ghetto route in this case.

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If you weld galvanized you run the risk of hurting yourself. The fumes are deadly.

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Man I went there this morning and didn't see ----. All the elbows they had were threaded. Just go on mcmaster-carr and get some real weld-eLs.

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not dead yet... but then again give anything time and thatll be another story.

i keep hearing mixed stories about welding it, do it everyday at work without a resporator and just a little peice of leather hanging from the bottom of my hood to channel the air from getting under and in my hood. i work with guys that have done it forever.. but they have done so many drugs its hard to tell what the effects of the galvanize was.

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And they're mother ------- morons too.
welding galvanized metal will make you sick with metal fume fever. you'll get sick... it's just a questin of your tolerance. may take afew days before you get sick afew hours later, or it may take one great big whiff.
continued exposure will put you in a hospital with lung damage.
I can't tell you exactly what kind of lung damage, but we've already had one boy in my welding class drop out from welding galvanized pipe & work. guy welded some galvanized pipe for about 2 weeks. was sick each night (metal fever). eventually his parents hospitalized him & he has lung damage & is on disability for afew months @ 18-19.



------- kids think they're 10' tall. Don't be stupid. grind all the coating off anywhere near the weld area.

i use gavlanized pipe too sometimes, but i by god grind the ---- off too~!

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I can attest to how bad welding galvinized is. The fumes have a really obnoxious smell to them, and after doing just exhaust and charge pipe work over the course of 3 days it made me sick...not just sick, but a nasty sick with ungodly headaches to the point I couldn't even stand. After that I started getting pipes from a different source that weren't galvanized and I've been fine since then. If you want the same elbows I used, get them from the black iron pipe section in Home Depot...they're used mostly for gas lines and old steam heat setups.

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^ werd listen 2 the man.
i got sick once too, mask filled up with fumes a couple of times in a few hours & you'd take just a handful of breaths of that nasty stuff. i felt fine for afew hours, then could bearly sit up without wanting to hurl.

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Oh, I definatly planned on hitting them with the grinder before welding. I'm no idiot about welding it, I was just wondering if that ---- would dammage the turbo or not. But I actually found a local place to get some nice butt-weld elbows for cheap, so ---- the galvanized elbows.

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+1 great prices and fast shipping