indeed - although I suspect the "brittleness" is less a factor of the galvanizing than of just the thin steel - in my experience with cheap sheet metal stoves (like the gsw airtights you can buy in canada) and using galvanized and nongalvanized pipe for them is that it's good for a couple of seasons and that's it. it'll burn out. I fully expect to simply build another
of these stoves after a season, maybe 2, depending on how much I use it. If I could find
a good souce of stainless that might be another matter. But at that point I'll just give up
and buy the titanium goat rollup titanium jobby <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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