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UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
2. My distress flag avatar is gone - yip, we've got tough times to go but gets *BETTER*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 02:42 PM
Nov 2020

Brother Buzz

(36,217 posts)
3. I grew up with a bell like that, only it was thrifty working class cast iron edition
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 03:16 PM
Nov 2020

My brother has it now; he is a serious bell collector


I rang my bell, one I made from an oxygen cylinder, painted black. My brother has another one I made, one with an applied copper finish that developed a wonderful patina. I laugh when I see it, and don't dare tell him what I did to turn in green.

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
4. "working class edition" - well, bought mine at a working class flea market!1
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 03:25 PM
Nov 2020

I assume it's cast iron, no? And it was painted black until recently when I spray paint painted it acryllic copper gloss.






Brother Buzz

(36,217 posts)
5. Silly me, I just assumed it was a coveted bronze casting, but the cast iron yoke should....
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 03:55 PM
Nov 2020

have told me otherwise

Our bell was never painted; unlike the steel oxygen cylinder, cast iron weathers well in the elements

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