How do I sell a big, heavy, sheet of copper?
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GatorFarmer
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If you're bored, I say make viking style helmets and sell them on Ebay. Who wouldn't want a copper viking helmet?
model10
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buffed an polished it could be made into a desplay of a old still in the front yard , does copper ever wear oiut ??
buffed an polished it could be made into a desplay of a old still in the front yard , does copper ever wear oiut ??
Bassamatic
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Well, if you don't want to hammer out your own little Statue of Liberty for the front yard, I think you would do better cutting it into pieces and selling it to the arts & crafts crowd.
Here a strange one.
I have a 40"x50" copper sheet. It's bent a little in the top corner when they pulled it out of the ground.
It is .375" thick!
I think it weighs about 40-50 lbs, but not quite sure.
Are you sure it's solid copper? A 40"x50"x.375" copper plate should weigh 243 lbs..
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sipowicz
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Have you checked the "All kinds of Metal" forum? Scroll down to the "Big heavy pieces of Copper" room.....someone there should be able to help.
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Andy Griffith
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No, because I don't think AC/DC can help me.
But I did a search and found the forum/blog at:
artmetal [dot] com
Sometimes...your posts make more sense taken seriously than if they are laughed off. You're a genius!
Are you related to Shugart?
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oldRoger
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Work of ART!
I knew a couple who had a small copper plate which he found in a flooded basement framed and hanging in the living room, many complements.
I think what you have is already art, probably too large for indoors, but........ Make a base for it (concrete) stick one corner in so that it's mostly vertical (not exactly, think "artistic"), diagonal I think, be sure the bent corner shows. Let it weather a bit, a little uric acid in places might give more color, next spring it's ready for display or sale. You might consider a pattern, dead soft .45acps from about 30 feet might do.
I knew a couple who had a small copper plate which he found in a flooded basement framed and hanging in the living room, many complements.
I think what you have is already art, probably too large for indoors, but........ Make a base for it (concrete) stick one corner in so that it's mostly vertical (not exactly, think "artistic"), diagonal I think, be sure the bent corner shows. Let it weather a bit, a little uric acid in places might give more color, next spring it's ready for display or sale. You might consider a pattern, dead soft .45acps from about 30 feet might do.
Landpimp
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I vote for making some sort of yard art with it
my folks house is copper covered(under the grass roof) and its darn cool.
my buddy Tom Torens could make something really neat out of it for you.
my folks house is copper covered(under the grass roof) and its darn cool.
my buddy Tom Torens could make something really neat out of it for you.
CAJUNLAWYER
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make pennys
rburg
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Sorry, Caje...pennies are made from zinc (the classic pot metal) these days. They're only copper plated. Next time you're sipping a beer (or maybe 2) around a campfire, find an old 2x4 or 2x6. Put a new penny on the end and put it in the hot part of the fire. If you watch, the guts of it run out and into the coals. But the paper thin copper plating remains on the board. (hint: let it cool before touching it.)
sipowicz
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No, because I don't think AC/DC can help me.
But I did a search and found the forum/blog at:
artmetal [dot] com
Sometimes...your posts make more sense taken seriously than if they are laughed off. You're a genius!
Are you related to Shugart?
Why thank you! I hope some artist makes it into a real sexy naked copper lady!
35Rem
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^ Now THAT'S genius!
NWGun
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Take it directly to the non ferrous scrap yard yourself. You'll get spot price for clean copper.
m1gunner
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Use it for a ground plate for a lightening rod system for your home.
This advice from someone that has been hit by lightening 3 times, twice in Georgia, and both times in my own house.
This advice from someone that has been hit by lightening 3 times, twice in Georgia, and both times in my own house.
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Andy Griffith
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I never believed that there'd be four pages on a slab of copper! 
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Andy, Andy, Andy..........
I'm su'prised atchu, livin' up thar in them hills, Ida thought you'd know this-
That is a Bigfoot repeller.
Place it in the front chard, 13-1/2 feet from the first porch step. This has to be be done at xactly 12:13 am, in tha dark o' the moon. One side has to line up xactly with true north, not magnetic north.
Walk backwards aroun' it three times, an' then jump backwards over it- TOWARDS the porch.
I garanteeee you'll never see no Bigfoot on yer front porch.
I'm su'prised atchu, livin' up thar in them hills, Ida thought you'd know this-
That is a Bigfoot repeller.
Place it in the front chard, 13-1/2 feet from the first porch step. This has to be be done at xactly 12:13 am, in tha dark o' the moon. One side has to line up xactly with true north, not magnetic north.
Walk backwards aroun' it three times, an' then jump backwards over it- TOWARDS the porch.
I garanteeee you'll never see no Bigfoot on yer front porch.
