In the days when my dad used to make his own fishing leads we both used to look in the gutters for scraps of lead left by the roofers.
Bill
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Lead shot
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Try diving shops. Lead shot is common in weightbelts.
Alternatively cast your own - something else that's common in older diving circles... I've seen moulds made from wood too...
You could even take lead sheeting and tightly roll it into a cylinder. Taper the ends with some gentle hammering (and fix in a cup-hook at the same time) Won't have quite the same density, but ...?
Gordon
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11 years ago
Hmm - thanks. I'd never heard of it!
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11 years ago
The scones my mother-in-law used to make would be ideal.
Bill
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11 years ago
AGH! That's the worst crime so far admitted in this group! AUGH! Bill: re lead .... do you think it wise, to be fessing up in that way, in this current climate of retrospective judicial proceedings? :-)
J.
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11 years ago
Possibly not. I think I'll keep quiet about the arson.
Bill
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11 years ago
Use nuclear waste so you get a nice warm glow.
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All of my stock of solder is real tin/lead. All other stuff is bogus.
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I have a sufficiency of that, but it does seem a bit of a clart pouring it into a sparklets bulb.
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11 years ago
It'd look awful.
Safer?
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Actuially I did buy some today (ok - yesterday) from a local scuba diving shop. Not particularly cheap (8 quid a kg), in a stitched-up net bag. I may have to drill a slightly larger hole in the bulb to get the stuff in, but it's all pottering-about-material innit!
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11 years ago
In message , Frank Erskine writes
There will be a world shortage
... I bought 36 kg of 60/40/ today
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In message , Arfa Daily writes
12 x 2kg reels @ £45 24 x 500g reels @ £15in round terms
IIRC
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In message , geoff writes
When I actually "worked", in season, I would get through a 500g reel / month, so 5-6 kg / year
with 4 people working on pcbs for me, that's 2 years supply
Thinking that lead and tin will only go up in price, I'm wondering if that was enough or whether I should have bought more