Subject: Copper - Help

From: [email-masked] (Darrell Markewitz)
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 03:43:44 GMT

1: Jeff - and ALL
  2:
  3: This may not help you a whole lot - but:
  4:
  5: My understanding that in the middle ages (And up till recently!)
the
  6: practice was to give the roofers who had just installed a copper
sheet
  7: roof an extra large ale 'bonus' with the requirement they void
their
  8: badders over the comleted roof - so that their urine would help to
turn the copper green!

I think  Theophilus or one of the other ancient treatises on metal work
has a number or formulas or turning metals various colours- I'll try to
find =something and get back to you.
Darrell

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