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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (4999)	8/30/2003 6:35:06 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

You could make your own metal roof out of 14 gauge body metal, and use a crinkler. What you do is set the body metal into a form made of parallel 2 inch angle irons and close a door on it that fits the crinkle form. (oil or grease the sheet lightly) The door is of the same construction and has about 1000 lbs of weights on it. For good crinkling, back the truck up onto the door. Saves beating it all day with a 20 pound hammer. Coating the roof? Tar, white paint or zinc. To do zinc, use a nylon tank, add waste battery acid, calcium chloride or road salt, and zinc shavings or a zinc ingot. Dip your crinkle sheet when the zinc has been dissolved and brought to near neutral with lime. Clamp an electrode to the crinkle sheet and the other end of the cable to the negative pole of three car batteries in series. The positive goes to a rod of stainless that dips in the solution. The crinkle will get a nice smooth coat of zinc metal. Good for 40 years. EC<:-}