Hi folks, I plan on using some wood pieces (cut to the same thickness as glass) mixed in with regular glass pieces in some panels. Any ideas about whatever I can put on the wood so they'll stay untouched while cleaning and puttying. Something I can peel off when it's finished, maybe Mactac, some goopy stuff or whatever? Bart.
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A thick coating of silicone based furniture polish will repel most stuff. I assume this is an indoor only piece for keeping in a dry place?
A more interesting question is how you are going to deal with the burn marks on the wood from the soldering heat
what you could do is...cover each piece of wood (front and back) with clear contact paper. Then after your puttying is all complete, just trim around the lead and remove the contact paper. I've done this when using extemely textured glass.
Andy
Yes it is. Hopefully, whatever method would also keep the wood untouched by electroplating. Probably hoping a little too much here eh... :) Bart.
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Uh yup, electroplating generally starts with a cleanning bath of Sodium Hydroxide, followed by a strike plate of Cyanide Copper, getting the picture here? Key words, Bath and Cyanide, (Arsenic was used in Wolmanized wood, don't know what Cyanide wood is, except poisonus, wouldn't want the dried salts in anything sitting around my house.
You probably already do. I was suprised when I read the tag on pressure treated lumber. Arsenic.
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As he's wanting to do this project in lead, I see no problems with any burning of the wood as the solder joints are quite small. Contact paper actually holds up quite well under heat from a soldering iron. many of the stained glass mirrors that i used to make all had Contact paper on the back and they were done in copper foil. the contact paper held up surprisingly well. so i see no problems with him burning the wood.
Andy
You don't have any in your house do you?
Cyanide? Much more dangerous than Arsenic.
Actually, I do. Got a nice little 4 by 4 block I keep in the workroom for drilling on.
Was just pointing out how surprised I was that it was in pressure treated lumber. No need to pick nits.
haven't seen me handling a soldering iron huh ;)
I don't foresee much of a heat and/or scorching problem. I'll try the suggestions and as per usual, thanks much for the wisdom so freely shared folks. The wood, I have a lot of pieces that are too purdy for the fireplace and I'll put the new bandsaw to work one of these days soon to see what I can come up with. Thanks again, Bart.
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