[TheForge] In need of a little instruction.

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Don't know if it will affect you, but most copper grounding rod is 
actually iron with a really heavy layer of copper.  Looks more like it 
has been dipped than plated.

Charles

Justin Fellenz wrote:

>Aaron, have you thought about welding? I've had good luck welding
>copper together using tig and regular single strand electrical wire for
>filler, and I bet you could do it with gas too. Copper runs really
>smoothly, it just takes a lot of heat, and the whole piece gets hot
>real fast, almost like water running up a pipe. It gets all black and
>nasty looking but scotch-brite makes it nice again. The nice thing
>about welding is that you have all one color of metal--you can make it
>look like it grew that way.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>JRF
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