On Jun 6, 9:40*am, Kris Krieger wrote:
Chemo the Clown wrote :





On Jun 5, 7:46*pm, Kris Krieger wrote:
Chemo the Clown wrote
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On Jun 3, 2:55*pm, "charlie"
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On Jun 3, 12:03 pm, Kris Krieger wrote:

Hi,

I want to make sme fixtures for outdoors. I'm doing copper foil.
Can the

patina and whatnot be weatherproofed in any way? I thought about
paste- waxing the lead lines, or lacquering the whoel assembly,
but any info would
be great.

Thanks!

- Kris

You could wax it every now and then with something like Clarity
Glass Wax but...it's my experience that overall, copperfoiled work
doesn't fair all that well when left to the exposed weather. The
solder seams tend to get rather ugly (oxidized) over time.

--
since there's no seal between the glass and the foil, it's not
possible to

weatherproof foiled work. that's why god invented lead came with
putty.

Not quite true...I've made water crystal catchers that hold water
and don't leak. Basically a diamond shaped box. Before putting the
last diamond on, fill with water then solder the last foiled
diamond in place and hang from one end.

SOunds interesting - do you have any pics posted on-line? *I'd like
to s
ee
that.

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I don't have any pics of the ones I've made but they are just like
these:http://www.tglass.net/Bevels.htmscroll down about half way.

Interesting, I hadn't seen that before. *I'm guessing that the water
eitehr spreads out the "rainbows", and/or makes teh "rainbows" more
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Yeah sorta...depends on how the sun hits them...sometimes they cast
some nice rainbows across the room.