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

[Jerry Frost]

I thought about that Pete but it'd tend to waterproof the pennies, maybe too 
much to work on the lichen.

Jer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Update [OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)]


> 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
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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 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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