A coupla of years ago the Queen and I visited Italy and found the following hammered copper plates in some street bazaar in Asissi.
You’ll notice they’ve been tinned as part of the design.
The smaller plate has a hanger soldered to the back. The larger does not. The thickness of the copper is about that of a nckel. It’s rather stout.
Attempts to hang the larger plate on the wall by adhesive stickers, velcro and such have failed due to the weight of the plate. Notice the edges and how a couple of times it’s fallen and reshaped the edges.
I’d like to somehow attach a manly type of hanger that will do the job. I’m afraid of using heat to solder one on and any damage it may cause to the tinning and color of the front.
Any suggestions?
Edit: I’m sorry, somehow the same picture got loaded twice. I’ll post the back picture following.
Edited 1/15/2006 3:44 pm ET by peteshlagor
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O.K., this is the back sides:
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Pete- How do you feel about putting a lilttle epoxy on the back of that thing? I would think it would hold a hook forever.
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You said it first. Scuff the area a bit and glue 'er on there.
Agreed- epoxy is the way to go. Roughen the surface first to give the glue a good surface to "bite" into. Make the hook double-ended so you get two glue joints per hook. Should last forever.
I think they are beautiful! I would NOT glue or solder or do anything to potentially damage those plates. I'd use a plate hanger. They don't compromise the value of the item. I think even a cheap one would hold it, but if not, there are heavy duty ones. I've used them to hang huge china platters which weigh a lot.
Google plate hanger for something like this:
http://doityourself.com/store/4977641.htm
Tim
My idea was a plate rack mounted on the wall then you can take the plater down to clean ,paint the wall whatever.
That could also be done with an attached hanger.
My first thought was epoxy, but I wantd to be sure no special epoxy was required...
Yeah - I guess I'd have to jump on the epoxy bandwagon. Solder heat would probably damage the front.
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OK, poxie it is.
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Since the back is likely polished or pretty smooth, I'd not use any letter-poxy but would use isocyanate and use a hangar with a metal tab.
I'm assuming you are referring to a heavy bodied superglue?
Why's that better?
For God's sake don't even think of using epoxy or solder! Go out and get yourself some plate hangers.
This reminds of a story. years ago I was partners in a ski and bike shop and one of our partners invited me over to his house to look at redoing one of his bathrooms. When I got there he wanted to show me the the little old children's desk he sanded and painted and was now using as a side table in a hallway. I looked at it and pulled out the drawer there inside the drawer it said Stickley. He thought the oak was dirty so he wanted to fix it up and fixing it up he completely destroyed the value it had.
There was also a great episode I once saw on Antiques Road Show where this woman bought a old desk lamp at a garage sale and then took some steel wool to it to shine it up sprayed it with some lacquer and then brought it in to the show to have it appraised. The line they used with her was "I have good news and some bad news for you". The good news was she had a genuine original arroyo craftmans lamp but her polishing of it had destroyed most of it's value.
Your plates may very well just be relatively inexpensive souvenir plates right now but any thing you do to them should be done with an eye towards what they might be worth someday in the future.
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They're all wrong. You asked for a manly hanger. Use a 16d double header right through the center. A Piffin screw would be an alternate, but only if it's attached to the side of a cabinet.
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