Where can I buy Corrugated metal

Acid Rain and oak drips eat Al nicely.

Most anything eats steel. The trick is to use washers of plastic or rubber to be between the nail head and the metal. Otherwise you cut the galvanization. The next best is to get some cold galvanization paint and over spray each nail head and scratch. Watch for tree limbs that bend and trash the surface.

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One could just re-coat the edge with cold galvanization. I'd think about using a metal building roof. It isn't wavy but something like square like lines.

Martin

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I cut it with an abrasive cut-off wheel in an angle grinder. The diluted LPS3 I spray on it has kept the cut edges from rusting significantly for at least 5 years, despite the acids from oak leaves.

jsw

I went out back and examined the edges of this log shed roof, built some time between Aug 2007 and Oct 2008:

lower edge is a mix of factory sheared and abrasive cut edges with the burrs and slivers left on. The cut pieces were from an older, 5' shed roof that I had rebuilt to use full 8' panels.

The slivers are still grey on both the zinc and steel sides and only a little rust brown color shows in a few places. I probably haven't sprayed those panels since they went up.

Somewhere I read that the zinc was observed to migrate onto the cut steel edge. I can't tell, but the thin slivers and burrs on my roof panels are still intact.

jsw

Marked with a Sharpie?

OMG! The dreaded Oak Rust rears its ugly head again... (See silly thread on the Wreck for more info. ;)

-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine

Yep. Only the crests. I've enough chain saw log-slabbing experience to cut a straight line by eye.

jsw

I see a lot of surplus metal roofing on the local Craig's list.

That's probably a very handy bit of experience, Jim.

-- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!

Yeah, I've been helping a neighbor move his above-ground pool deck back for pool replacement and painting, then into place again, so I've done some rough free-hand carpentry on the jacking supports and cribbing. Today's project is precision notching some pole shed posts (=3Dtree trunks) for the roof beams with the chainsaw and slick chisel.

jsw

Sounds like, erm, fun.

I keep looking at (and moving) that half a leaf spring I have and wondering why I haven't yet made a slick for myself. I traded some web work for tools from an old shipbuilder (you old timers would remember Dave Fleming.) I picked up a nice old Satanley #10 but he wouldn't give up his James Swan slick, not that I blame him.

-- "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" --John Adams

When I was little we moved into a house that had lots of old tools in the basement, including a set of socketed wood chisels. My father and I didn't really appreciate them and pounded the handles with a hammer, then when the wood was gone we hammered on the socket.

Some day I will follow Alexander Weygers' instructions to reforge the sockets and fit new handles.

jsw

You'd da@#edwell better, dude. That's some heavy karma you have to repay.

-- "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" --John Adams

If only that was enough.

jsw

Guy I worked for in 1954 considered himself a recreational property developer. His inherited property consisted of about two miles of lakeshore on which he was building cottages every fifty feet. His construction tool kit consisted of a chain saw and an axe, he may also have owned a claw hammer. Gerry :-)} London, Canada