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Step 5Ferric Nitrate + Blowtorch = Good Times
What the hell is ferric nitrate, and why would you want to use it?
Basically, it's rust water. I wanted the copper to oxidize and get all green and badass, so this is what you do.
Clean your copper off, dump a bunch of F.N. on it, and hit it with a blow torch. I think we probably spent about 3-5 minutes on this step, mostly torch time.
You can see I drilled some holes (4) in the fender just previous to us cleaning off the surface. I was going to have to attach it somehow, and that seemed like the best way.
Anyway, it got some pretty nice flame scaling on it, and we left it in the sun for about 30 min to really let the F.N. do its work.
Basically, it's rust water. I wanted the copper to oxidize and get all green and badass, so this is what you do.
Clean your copper off, dump a bunch of F.N. on it, and hit it with a blow torch. I think we probably spent about 3-5 minutes on this step, mostly torch time.
You can see I drilled some holes (4) in the fender just previous to us cleaning off the surface. I was going to have to attach it somehow, and that seemed like the best way.
Anyway, it got some pretty nice flame scaling on it, and we left it in the sun for about 30 min to really let the F.N. do its work.
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