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

[Bruce Freeman]

Frosty,

That's too much like work!

My thought was to somehow stick a row of pennies onto some masking
tape, then paint them with some adhesive (RTV? roofing mastic?),
invert the whole thing along the roof to apply pennies + stickup to
roof, then either peel off the masking tape or just let it weather
away.

But I don't relish putting pennies onto masking tape one by one.  So
I'm trying to figure out how to lay out the pennies on a neat row and
apply masking tape to pennies.  Almost there, but not quite.


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> Bruce: You can buy roofing mastic in a tube like caulking and it'll do the
> job for you and easy.
>
> Frosty
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> It ain't real
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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.
>>>
>
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Bruce
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