Re: [DML] Delorean galvanized frames

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

Someone asked Mike Loasby this at Eurofest. The reason is that with all the
tapped holes in the chassis, it's much easier to plug them with plastic
plugs, and coat the frame in epoxy (which won't stick to certain plastics),
then removing the plugs, than galvanising the frame and re-tapping out all
the holes. There's a DW article from a guy who did this and had exactly this
problem. I don't know why they couldn't use plugs in the galvanising process
as well, but there must've been a good one!

Martin

CBL302@xxxx wrote:

> Does anybody know why JZD in his infinite wisdom never thought of
> using a galvanized frame such as the Lotus uses(since it is a basic
> copy of a lotus backbone chassis,and if lotus could galvanize their
> frames,there was no reason why the DMC frames could have been
> orignally galvanized),I notice on the Lotus mailing lists they never
> talk/worry about rotting frames,just wondering.
>
> Claude
> 000570