What's your number? - a little metal working!

[DAB]

Mrs. DAB saw an idea in one of her many idea books, and this was the result:

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad214/brinkmancorvette/IMG_0976_zpsf7f706ff.jpg

copper piping and some copper sheeting, all soldered together. all from pieces and parts i had laying around.

[_Nomad_]

Needs an ornament of some kind on the top to give it a finished look.

Or, you could run a wire in the ground and up one of the copper tubes to the top where you fab up some kind of light, like a lamp. Direct the light to shine down onto the numbers to be seen at night.

looks good though, nice work. The numbers look great.

Of course, you know that some douche kazoo will steal it for the copper value.

[DAB]

it's not visible from the road. we'll sink in down into the ground tomorrow about 4 inches.

[Milton Fox]

I like your light cover, too! :cheers:

[JRD77VET]

Nice work Doug :seasix:

I saw this on ebay, another idea for you

[99 pewtercoupe]

Looks good Doug :seasix:

[Kerrmudgeon]

It'll be green in a couple of years. :seasix:

[99 pewtercoupe]

It'll be green in a couple of years. :seasix:

Patina! It's what everyone wants

[LATB]

It'll be green in a couple of years. :seasix:

Indeed

Copper = my fav metal as a building material

I love the patina on roofing and flashing and trim

But it's gotten out of site expensive

[lspencer534]

Indeed

Copper = my fav metal as a building material

I love the patina on roofing and flashing and trim

But it's gotten out of site expensive

I thought you just used cow piss to give it that green patina...?

[OddBall]

mount a severed head on it. That'l keep the vandals away.

[99 pewtercoupe]

mount a severed head on it. That'l keep the vandals away.

That dog you need to shoot would be a good candidate.

[Black95]

Insulate the base and hook it up to a cattle electric fencer so the vandals know they grabbed on to something "hot!"

[LATB]

I thought you just used cow piss to give it that green patina...?

You can
But getting them cows up on the roof is a bitch

[DAB]

It is so dry that it'll take a long time for that to turn green.

[LATB]

It is so dry that it'll take a long time for that to turn green.

Here on the FL coast

It be green in the morning :D

[DAB]

The piping was old stuff from the shop (old horse barn) that has been around for at least 10 years. It was a dirty brown patina before I cleaned it up a bit. Still have a piece of copper sheet about 12"x24".

[snide]

627

Can you make a mailbox post? :bigears:

[DAB]

627

Can you make a mailbox post? :bigears:

From old house. Cedar. Slipped over a 4x4 sunk in the ground.

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad214/brinkmancorvette/Woodworking/IMG_0582.jpg

Kinda big to mail. Copper cap I made on top.

[RED-85-Z51]

LAst picture reminds me...6-7 years ago the area had an issue of, someone driving their truck over mailboxes at night happened on our road, and the road behind us, you could see the tracks, they just drove right over them, post and all. After the 2nd incident, the guy on the next road up, bought an old telephone pole, cut it down to size, and buried it about 5 feet down, and poured a shit ton of concrete in the hole, and topped it with a nice cheap mailbox. ( he had a tractor with an auger, and a backhoe)

Took about a month, but...bam....dumbasses must have hit it at 15-20 or so, they found alot of metal debris, a bumper, some light lenses and a trail of coolant that went off down the road.

No doubt some redneck with a tall mud truck......looking to be a dick.

Mailbox was knocked off, but that old timber...stood strong.

Hasnt occurred since then...anywhere around here.