OT Real Galvanized parts

Does anyone know of a site to purchase hot dipped galvanized hardware? I need a site that accepts money order or paypal. I want the good stuff. It's such a shame and so darn misleading when they call it galvanized and its got a .5 micron layer of zinc on it. Dad was telling me at work (hes an electrician), that when they bend some of the galvanized conduit that the plating crackes right off!!. This is right up there with permenantly lubricated motors and plastic bushings instead of bronze!!!

Thanks for any help guys

I just need about 100lbs of zinc and a big vat and a good source of heat and I could dip my own =)

Hot dipped parts are certainly better - but not actually "galvanized" when using the original meaning of the word.

to coat (metal, esp. iron or steel) with zinc

It doesnt matter if its electroplated, hot dipped, painted on, or zinc coming out of your but and falling on steel. =P

electroplated zinc might be better if its thicknesses were equivilant to hot dipped. That is the reason they use electroplated, so they can use as little zinc as they can and call it galvanized. It's a flippin joke and is enough to make people like me insane because so many people buy the crap and wonder why it rusts. But what are you to do when its the only thing readily available anymore. This country and world is turning to crap!! In 50 years people will have to go to a museum to see a grease zerk. There will be exhibits on what used to make equipment reliable before the disposable society revolution!!

ARGH Technology can make the world a better place, but it can just as easy screw us over.

Sorry, had to vent =)

I DID put my comment in historical context.

The orignal use of the word "galvanize" referred to the disovery by Luigi Galvani - and refers to a certain affect electricy has on certain items. It simply meant, at first, "electric effect." His first experiments were with dead animals - making them twitch by shocking them. It then became more commonly used for the process of metalplating with zinc by the use of electricity.
Thus the term "galvanize." Later on, and now, the term is used more loosely to any sort of zinc-coating process.

So, I ask again - "uhmm no" to what? The historical record?