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  2. Corrugated galvanised iron - Wikipedia

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    Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia), is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised ...

  3. Hot-dip galvanization - Wikipedia

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    Galvanised hand rail Crystalline surface of a hot-dip galvanized handrail, known as "spangle" Protective effect: completely rusted letter box mounted to a hot-dip galvanized wall Steel strip coming out of the zinc pot of a continuous vertical hot-dip galvanizing line. Hot-dip galvanization is a form of galvanization.

  4. Galvanization - Wikipedia

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    Galvanized surface with visible spangle Galvanization ( also spelled galvanisation ) [ 1 ] is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron , to prevent rusting . The most common method is hot-dip galvanizing , in which the parts are coated by submerging them in a bath of hot, molten zinc.

  5. Bucyrus-Erie - Wikipedia

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    3850-B power shovels for stripping, one built each in 1962 and 1964, with bucket capacities of 115 and 145 cu yd (88 and 111 m 3). 2570-W or WS, one of B-E's most popular dragline models with bucket capacities between 120 and 160 cu yd (92 and 122 m 3). Ursa Major at Black Thunder Coal Mine was reported to be the third largest dragline ever built.

  6. Piping and plumbing fitting - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing the construction of a typical leaded hub joint. Cast iron piping was traditionally made with one "spigot" end (plain, which was cut to length as needed) and one "socket" or "hub" end (cup-shaped). The larger-diameter hub was also called a "bell" because of its shape.

  7. Electrogalvanization - Wikipedia

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    Electrogalvanizing is a process in which a layer of zinc is bonded to steel to protect against corrosion, enhance adhesion, or give an aesthetic appeal.The process involves electroplating, running a current of electricity through a saline-/zinc-based electrolytic solution with a zinc anode and steel cathode.

  8. Bucket - Wikipedia

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    Buckets shaped like castles often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit; Buckets in special shapes such as cast iron buckets or smelting buckets to hold liquid metal at high temperatures; Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or a lunch bucket. Buckets can be ...

  9. Big Muskie - Wikipedia

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    The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...