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> From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:57 AM
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> Subject: [BP] walked around Trinity Church Boston today...
> 
> 
> Around the corner - Exeter Street? - an interesting collision 
> of faith and works.  A dental enameling outfit opened up in a 
> 1910's storefronted 1880's rowhouse, all very intact.  

Dentils are a classical ornament, not Baptist.

> I've always imagined that painting non-ferrous metals was 
> essentially a doomed enterprise, no matter what, so I was 
> thinking this was entirely misbegotten.  But then I realized 
> that I really don't know:  is there, indeed, a sound way to 
> paint over (say) copper and have it last  as long as, say, wood?   

Yes. See Ralph et Twybil. Acidic wash will also remove any of the
factory solvents/oils from production that Ralph refers to.

D.

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