[TheForge] Update [OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)]

[Jerry Frost]

Bruce: You can buy roofing mastic in a tube like calking and it'll do the 
jobe for you and easy.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Update [OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)]


> The roofing tar as adhesive,  I thought of, and I used the several
> patches applied recently to that end.  What I need is a way of quickly
> or automatically applying tar to one side only of the pennies.  For
> the nonce, I'm content to see how quickly the pennies migrate down the
> roof w/o adhesive.
>
> Tying them together could be iffy.  You do  not want anything on an
> asphalt shingle roof that will be dragged back and forth over the same
> spot.  Loose stuff like gravel (or pennies) is no problem --  many
> houses in So. Calif. have tar paper roofs with loose gravel atop.  A
> long wire or a string of pennies could end up wearing holes in the
> roof by thermal expansion & contraction or motion of wind and rain.
>
> But that brings to mind another source of copper -- discarded
> electrical wire (of any sort).  Clip the pieces down to 1/2" and
> they'll not likely be a problem.  To be sure of that, anneal them (to
> red heat) in a gas forge before using, so they'll be dead soft.
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
> <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>> Place the pennies with a dab of roofing tar.
>>