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

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Ummmm...dip each one in a bit of tar and toss on the roof?

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 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
>> -------------------------
>> If it ain't forged
>> It ain't real
>> wrought iron is
>> The Frostworks
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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