Jim, You can buy molds to cast lead ingots in several sizes, such as 8 ounce or one pound. Or you can buy lead ingots. They are readily sold to hunters and fishermen on eBay. There are various sized boxes available from the post office that allows up to 75 pounds to be shipped for something like $15...wait they just raised the rates so it may have gone up. Those boxes make it feasible to buy lead over the internet. steve Steve R. M-15 #119 Lexington, KY ***************************************************** Thanks Skipper Great suggrstions. I was thinking of larger units of the lead shot (using an ice cube tray) before putting them back in to the haul. What do you do to dam up the epoxy when you put it back? Captain Jim Sailing vessel Pelican
I was able to find some lead by salvaging the keel from a sailboat that was being scrapped out. I can tell you that fiberglass wreaks havoc on a chainsaw blade. I can also tell you that starting a chainsaw inside a boat cabin gives you about 1 millisecond before the whole cabin is uninhabitable. Tod Mills <===crawling out from under a rock. M17 #408 BuscaBrisas
Thanks Todd, that is good to know next time I find myself with a chainsaw in a boat cabin thinking of doing something foolish ;-) Joe Moore M15 #641 Midnight Passage On 5/22/07 11:40 PM, "htmills@bright.net" <htmills@bright.net> wrote:
I was able to find some lead by salvaging the keel from a sailboat that was being scrapped out.
I can tell you that fiberglass wreaks havoc on a chainsaw blade. I can also tell you that starting a chainsaw inside a boat cabin gives you about 1 millisecond before the whole cabin is uninhabitable.
Tod Mills <===crawling out from under a rock. M17 #408 BuscaBrisas
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Hopefully not a Tartan 26! Wreaks havoc on regular Skill saws, DeWalt angle grinders and all sorts of Dremel tools too*. Perhaps one of those Stihl concrete saws? Have recently upgraded to the $40, double filter air mask. Much better than the double strap version. I could never use those with safety glasses, which fogged up, so a lot of times I'd find myself doing something with no mask. Really dumb. * Dingy I'm building, not Audasea! Howard htmills@bright.net wrote:
I was able to find some lead by salvaging the keel from a sailboat that was being scrapped out.
I can tell you that fiberglass wreaks havoc on a chainsaw blade. I can also tell you that starting a chainsaw inside a boat cabin gives you about 1 millisecond before the whole cabin is uninhabitable.
Tod Mills <===crawling out from under a rock. M17 #408 BuscaBrisas
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Thanks Steve I purchased the lead shot on ebay for about $1 per lb. shipped. I will get some ingots Captain Jim sailing vessel Pelican On 5/22/07, Steve R. <stever707@mail.saabnet.com> wrote:
Jim,
You can buy molds to cast lead ingots in several sizes, such as 8 ounce or one pound. Or you can buy lead ingots. They are readily sold to hunters and fishermen on eBay. There are various sized boxes available from the post office that allows up to 75 pounds to be shipped for something like $15...wait they just raised the rates so it may have gone up. Those boxes make it feasible to buy lead over the internet.
steve
Steve R. M-15 #119 Lexington, KY
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Thanks Skipper
Great suggrstions.
I was thinking of larger units of the lead shot (using an ice cube tray) before putting them back in to the haul.
What do you do to dam up the epoxy when you put it back?
Captain Jim Sailing vessel Pelican
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