[TheForge] Fountain Spout

[Gabriel Cain]

Jeff,

I would say stainless -- unpassivated stainless should give you the 
rusted finish while corroding more slowly than mild steel.

Alternatively, if you had access to pure iron or wrought iron, that 
would survive a while as well.

Hmm.

Gabriel

ductility at juno.com wrote:

> I have a client that wants a spout for a fountain.  Very simple project
> but with one problem, what to make it out of?  Seeing it is a outside
> fountain the water will have chemicals in it and could corrode the wrong
> type of metal.  Anybody out there ever dealt with this problem and what
> is the solution.  The finish has to be old, antique, maybe like rusted
> iron with the deep dark brown look.


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