40 - Friday, June 19, 1992 — North Shore News

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THE FOLLOWING are the
scheduled road closures and
detours for the coming week in
North Vancouver District, City,
West Vancouver District and
along area highways.
@ North Vancouver District:
Banbury. Road/Cliffmont Road‘
Deep Cove Road to Raebur
Avenue: Road construction ..
progress. Detours may be in effect
time to time.
Gladwin Drive/Pembeszton
Avenue/Lloyd Avenue to West
26th Street: Road construction in
progress. Detours in effect.
Prospect Road: Rockland Road to
. Newdale Court: Watermain

replacement. Traffic control in
place.

Mount Seymour Parkway: Apex
Road to Roche Point: Pavement
cutting in north lane. Expect some

delays.

Pavement rehabilitation projects
will also be carried out at the fol-
lowing areas:

Ruby Avenue: Sunset Boulevard
to Bracknell Crescent.

Scott Road-Hoskins Road East.
Morgan Road-Lynn Valley Road
East.

Calder Avenze-Windsor Road to
Evergreen Place.

Chaucer Avenue-Fromme Road to

3LOCKS

Shakespeare Avenue.

Barrow Street-Mountain Hwy. to
100 metres east.

Harbour Avenue-Rupert Street to
Main Street.
Churchill
MacKay
Deibrook Avenue-Cartelier Street
to Montroyal Blvd.

e@ North Vancouver City: No
scheduled road closures or
detours.

@ West Yancouver District:
21st Street from Marine Drive to
Inglewood: Will be closed for
three weeks but open to local
traffic only. Expect delays.

Crescent-Lloyd to

steel manufacturers work
to counteract corrosion

DID YOU know that it
takes as many as 20 basic
types of steel to make just
one-car? And did you know
that steel manufacturers put
steel through as many as 50
tests before it is ready for
shipment to car manufac-
turers?

What consumers do know is
that they want a better buiit vehi-
cle that withstands rust and other
corrosive damages and maintains
an attractive appearance for many
years.

To meet these demands, steel
manufacturers are working closely
with car manufacturers to deter-
mine effective products that
counteract corrosion.

During the 1980s, there was a
major increase in the use of
precoated steels used by
automobile manufacturers to
combat corrosion.

According to Dr. Brian Att-
wood, LTV Steel's general man-
ager of research and quality con-
trol, the principal precoated steels
used in automotive applications
today are metallic coated sheets,
typically. of either pure zinc or
zinc-alloy compositions such as
zinc nickel.

From 1980 to 1989, the ship-
ments of coated sheet steel for
automotive consumption have
shown 2 four-fold increase as
automakers respond to consumer
demands for longer lasting cars
and trucks.

These new steels build-in corro-
sion protection, rather than ad-
ding it later, as was done in the
past with waxes and seam sealers
applied after the. car had been
manufactured.

Because of the increasing cost
of producing automobiles today,
steel makers are working with car
manufacturers to develop improv-
ed steel which is stronger, lighter,
and has the anticorrosive proper-
ties necessary to provide con-
sumers with a better value for
their investment. :

There are typically two
categories of rust-resisting coated
sheet steel: hot-dipped and elec-
troplated, Attwood explains. The
base cold-rolled steel is coated
during the steel finishing process
to assure better corrosion
resistance. .

In addition, depending on
where the steel will be used, the
anticorrosive stcels must also be
easy to stamp, bend and shape, as
well as provide good formability,
spot-weldability and paintability
during vehicle manufacturing.

The hot-dipped coated steels
are produced by a continuous
process of immersing the steel!
strip into a bath of the desired
molten metal. This is the most
cost-effective way to deposit
heavy, corrosion-resistant coatings
on Steel.

Hot-dipped ccatings include

zinc, zinc-alloy and aluminum.
The zinc coating is used mainly on
unexposed surfaces of an
automobile. With zinc and zinc-
alloy coated steel, exposure to wet
conditions does not result in
rusting at the damaged site
because of the sacrificial proper-
ties of the zinc coating.
Electroplated steel sheet is pro-
duced by a process in which a
Negatively charged steel strip is
passed between positively charged
anicdes which plate the surface. It
is used for outer autobody panels,

primarily because of the resulting
painted surface appearance. Its
formability and weldability also
are exceilent.

Duplex coatings are designed to
provide two layer interactions. A
thick bottom layer provides the
buik of the corrosion protection
to the substrate, while the top
layer enhances other desirable
Properties — such as weldability,
paintability, formability and sur-
face appearance — for automotive
body sheet applications.

Master the computer
with summer Classes

NORTH SHORE Continuing
Education will be offering
summer computer classes at the
Lucas Centre at 2132 Hamilton
in North Vancouver.

“Summer holidays provide
an excellent opportunity to
take intensive computer classes
that would be impossible dur-
ing the working year,’’ says
program coordinator Joan
Fleischer.

For those who are unfamiliar
with computers, a good start-
ing point is the course An In-
troduction to the IBM. It
begins on Monday, July 6 from
9 to 11:30 a.m. and covers the
basics of personal computers.

Once the basics have been
mastered, you can move on to
one of the popular and prac-
tical word processing classes.
Two eight-day intensive In-
troduction ,to Word Perfect

classes will run from 9 to 11:30 °

a.m. Participants can choose
either a Monday-to-Thursday
class beginning July 6 or a
Tuesday-to-Friday class start-

ing on July 7.

There will also be an Inter-
mediate Word Perfect class of-
fered from 9 to 11:30 a.m.,
Monday to Thursday between
Suly 20 to 31.

“While many people under-
stand how to use a computer,
they become frustrated when
their typing speed is too slow,”’
says Fleischer.

To help overcome this prob-
lem, a basic keyboarding class
is being offered to improve
both speed and accuracy for
adults and for children 10 years
or older. Both the adult and
children’s keyboarding classes
run Monday to Friday from 9
to 10:30 a.m. The adult pro-
gram begins on June 29 and
ends July 24; the children’s
program runs from 10:30 a.m.
to noon beginning on July 6
and ending July 17.

Pre-registration is recom-
mended for these popular
courses. For more information,
call North Shore Continuing
Education at 986-8888.

HUGE SAVINGS ON ALL
VEHICLE MAKES & MODELS

ey WE ACCEPT TRADES = :
We wouid be happy to offer you objective

advice on the benefits of lease vs. purchase.”
* Based on 48 month open ended leases with zero down OAC. Freight & PDI included,
Taxes extra. Vehicles may not be exactly as illustrated.

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