richhodg66
05-07-2020, 04:49 PM
A lady has advertised some roof caps taken off an old home in a small town about 70 miles from me which was settled by Swedish immigrants and the architecture in the town reflects that in a lot of the building. There was apparently some decorative guttering and other stuff she is going to keep for crafts and such.
She was at work when I talked to her, but I asked her if she could stick a magnet to one when she gets home. Seems like for roof caps they'd have to be some kind of lead alloy, or possibly copper, but the picture in her ad doesn't look like copper. These apparently overlap like scales and are rounded to fit the contour of the roof. She says they're free if someone wants them or else she and her husband will take them to the dump.
It's gonna be enough trouble that I don't want to drive that far just to find out they're galvanized steel, but I think there is a strong possibility it could be something useful. Any ideas what these might be?
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She was at work when I talked to her, but I asked her if she could stick a magnet to one when she gets home. Seems like for roof caps they'd have to be some kind of lead alloy, or possibly copper, but the picture in her ad doesn't look like copper. These apparently overlap like scales and are rounded to fit the contour of the roof. She says they're free if someone wants them or else she and her husband will take them to the dump.
It's gonna be enough trouble that I don't want to drive that far just to find out they're galvanized steel, but I think there is a strong possibility it could be something useful. Any ideas what these might be?
261752