[TheForge] Copper

[Demon Buddha]

Jeffrey L Jones wrote:

> I agree and in Sedona, Arizona the tempeture is only about 10 degrees
> cooler than Phoenix.  The architect has taken this into consideration

	This just made me wonder how well contact cement holds up
	in heat.  That's a lot of heat for a lot of years.  I'm not
	at all convinced it will last, but I may be wrong.  You might
	want to give a company like 3M a call and ask what they might 
	recommend for such an application.  You'd hate to have to come
	back to redo the job in two years.
> 
> "Also door you really mean
> the equivalent of 16 gage in copper or
> are you talking 16 oz. copper?"
> 
> The one thing I have learned so far about copper sheet is it is referred
> to in ounces.  The sheet I use needs to be fairly stiff so that when I
> make my cuts the edges dont deform.  I am talking about 16 gauge at the
> very least and possibly up to 10 gauge.

	If you cut using the plasma arc, you have no such problems.