>>I have recently obtained an old galvanised steel extractor and settling
tank. The steel is showing through the galvanising in the
extractor. Is there some sort of food-grade coating that I could paint on
.... that obviously would not flavour or poison the honey.
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   Walter T. Kelley,
   3107 Elizabethtown Road
   Box 240
 Clarkson, Kentucky 42726-0240,
 sells an epoxy, paint-on coating for extractors.
 
    I used it many years ago on a galvanized extractor.  It looks like
varnish.  I never saw any rust, but I was also really careful to wash, rinse,
and dry (in the sun) the extractor after each use.
 
Tim Sterrett
Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
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