Comments on: Write Letters on Copper “Paper” http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:56:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1052524 jayessell Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:03:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1052524 Will aluminum foil destroy my inkjet printer? Can't find my dot matrix. I'd have to print mirror imaged. Will aluminum foil destroy my inkjet printer?
Can’t find my dot matrix.
I’d have to print mirror imaged.

]]> By: Anne http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1052514 Anne Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:48:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1052514 I would love to see a copper letter written like this. Even if copper is expensive now, this would make a fun novelty item. (I think there are even some how-tos about making post cards something like this?). Too bad there is a severe lack of typewriters these days. I would love to see a copper letter written like this. Even if copper is expensive now, this would make a fun novelty item. (I think there are even some how-tos about making post cards something like this?). Too bad there is a severe lack of typewriters these days.

]]> By: Thomas http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1050937 Thomas Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:17:52 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1050937 That's interesting. I never heard of copper being used for anything of this sort before. I wonder if DamnInteresting.com has anything written about this yet... Thomas :) That’s interesting. I never heard of copper being used for anything of this sort before.

I wonder if DamnInteresting.com has anything written about this yet…

Thomas :)

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049931 jayessell Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:07:53 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049931 It would be good for Braille. Do any of these documents exist today? I'm guessing WWII took them all for the war effort. It would be good for Braille.
Do any of these documents exist today?
I’m guessing WWII took them all for the war effort.

]]> By: Casandro http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049836 Casandro Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:54:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049836 Well one advantage probably was that you could use it for small-run prints. Well one advantage probably was that you could use it for small-run prints.

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049636 Rick Auricchio Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:10:06 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049636 The high copper prices are especially tough here in the coastal environment. It's best to use copper for roof flashings, so that there's no rust. (When copper oxidizes, the green "rust" doesn't stain the house. Rust from steel does.) Within a hundred yards of the ocean, even galvanized metal begins to rust wherever there's a cut edge or scratch. Flashings are bad enough, but copper gutters and downspouts make for more expense. Occasionally, people will use aluminum for these items, carefully insulating them from the adjacent copper. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_corrosion) The high copper prices are especially tough here in the coastal environment. It’s best to use copper for roof flashings, so that there’s no rust. (When copper oxidizes, the green “rust” doesn’t stain the house. Rust from steel does.) Within a hundred yards of the ocean, even galvanized metal begins to rust wherever there’s a cut edge or scratch.

Flashings are bad enough, but copper gutters and downspouts make for more expense. Occasionally, people will use aluminum for these items, carefully insulating them from the adjacent copper. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_corrosion)

]]> By: luke the obscure http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049537 luke the obscure Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:21:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049537 Copper, let us take you to a furnace where we'll break you, fire's so big and pretty, you could cry, as a buckle, you could ask me what was wrong with me before - did I need the silver to be suitable? Copper, I have a use for you, it's easy work and it suits you, dazzled dirty beauty, you must know Copper is a conductor and makes for decent cooking, dazzled by your beauty still, you know, plated or anodized, you even fool a layman's eyes, presentable though you might be, it's unwise to try to fight me. Copper - you'll never be gold (Shellac) Copper, let us take you to a furnace where we’ll break you, fire’s so big and
pretty, you could cry,
as a buckle, you could ask me what was wrong with me before -
did I need the silver to be suitable?
Copper, I have a use for you, it’s easy work and it suits you,
dazzled dirty beauty, you must know
Copper is a conductor and makes for decent cooking,
dazzled by your beauty still, you know,
plated or anodized, you even fool a layman’s eyes,
presentable though you might be, it’s unwise to try to fight me.

Copper - you’ll never be gold

(Shellac)

]]> By: Al Bear http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049524 Al Bear Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:52:59 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049524 Wow! surplus copper! Wow! surplus copper!

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049503 jayessell Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049503 ...and during WWII it was in such short supply silver had to be used in the electromagnetic isotope separation machines. Guarded better there then when it was in the mint! …and during WWII it was in such short supply silver had to be used in the electromagnetic isotope separation machines.

Guarded better there then when it was in the mint!

]]> By: Orv http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049460 Orv Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:47:18 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049460 That was a rough period for the copper industry. The government stockpiled copper during WWI, then dumped it all on the market after the war, causing the price to crash. Then the Great Depression hit, which drove demand and prices down. That was a rough period for the copper industry. The government stockpiled copper during WWI, then dumped it all on the market after the war, causing the price to crash. Then the Great Depression hit, which drove demand and prices down.

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049454 Rick Auricchio Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:27:17 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/20/write-letters-on-copper-paper/#comment-1049454 My first thought was "And they can recycle them!" But then I realized they were trying to get rid of all that excess copper. I guess it didn't work well as toilet paper. My first thought was “And they can recycle them!” But then I realized they were trying to get rid of all that excess copper.

I guess it didn’t work well as toilet paper.

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