Re: Magma Arizona #7 STEAMS AGAIN!

edowty Wrote:
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> Wow she sure looks good!! And that "Copper
> smokebox front"
> as well. As I mentioned in a post
> several weeks back when
> my dad and I were working for the WMSRR
> in July of 1968,
> I had no camera no did my dad that dAY
> we visited Superior.
> I saw the 5s copper smokebox paint but I
> could not see the
> 7s. But heres a thought and it's just a
> thought. What about
> "copper anti sieze compound? Other than
> Copper powder which
> is I'm sure big bucks if it even exists
> , I'm sure you can
> come up with your paint!A flatt varnish
> as the solvent base.
> After all the powder is what stays on
> the surface and the
> solvant always burns off.


Tried that too...

It looked great until it got hot, then it burned off into an icky grey mess.

The stuff on it now is copper powder mixed with essentially high-temp varnish. The fact is copper powder is orange/red. That's why they call copper "the red metal".



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2014 07:35AM by Earl.