Aluminum on CorTen
Aluminum on CorTen
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Hello All,
New to your forum and am glad to have found you!
We are an artistic Metal business and a client of ours would like us to fabricate some business signs where we would apply forged aluminum letters to a CorTen sheet.
My question is if Aluminum (painted, anodized or plain) would affect the CorTen's corrosion behavior and or visa versa?
Also: could numbers and letters in form of printed stickers be applied to CorTen before, during or after it's corrosion process without the signage peeling off over time?
Thank you for any relies,
Thomas
New to your forum and am glad to have found you!
We are an artistic Metal business and a client of ours would like us to fabricate some business signs where we would apply forged aluminum letters to a CorTen sheet.
My question is if Aluminum (painted, anodized or plain) would affect the CorTen's corrosion behavior and or visa versa?
Also: could numbers and letters in form of printed stickers be applied to CorTen before, during or after it's corrosion process without the signage peeling off over time?
Thank you for any relies,
Thomas





RE: Aluminum on CorTen
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
I was afraid of that, albeit somewhat expected
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
They are just painted before the lettering is applied.
A quality primer and paint on the CorTen would let you do whatever you wanted with the Aluminum.
Regards
StoneCold
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
Of course we would have NOT painted the CorTen part of the project as this is the desired contrast to the either brushed or painted aluminum lettering.
But if the printed letters - the company name would be stand off aluminum and the address and phone numbers stickers - won't adhere than the whole idea of CorTen is off and we will go with all aluminum anyway
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
RE: Aluminum on CorTen
At least that is common for Cor-ten structures from the 70s.
http://roadsrus.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/img_11...
The Cor-ten Kettering University Bell Tower in Flint Michigan was structurally petty complete when I showed up in the Fall of 1968. They called it a carillon back then.