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

[Jerry Frost]

An inverted technique will work easier. Stick the pennies to the masking 
tape and re-roll it, then using a putty knife on a stick, spread a stripe of 
mastic on the roof. (They actually sell such things as long handled putty 
knives but tape being an integral part of the project, why change strokes 
now?) Next, unroll the penny tape, using the clean side of the putty knife 
on a stick to press it into the mastic and let it finish drying before 
peeling the tape.
 How's that for minimal bending over? My back isn't up to much bending over 
anymore. <sigh>

Frosty
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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 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Update [OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)]


> 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
>>