Lead Shot?

[SantaUK]

Just taken up Scuba Diving and was alarmed at the price of the weight belts / harnesses complete with weights. Anyone know of a good source of about

20kg of lead shot? Cheapest I've found is £89 delivered.

Regards

SantaUK

[The Medway Handyman]

Local church roof? :-)

[Phil L]

lead has to be one of the easiest metals to work with, so why not make your own? you can melt scrap lead in any old saucepan and pour it into moulds made from sand. It's easily cut (for the slots etc and finished with a wire brush to remove excess

I'd wager that a large portion of the £89 you've been quoted is for delivery.

[Steve Walker]

Does it have to be lead shot?

2 chainsaws and a 9" angle grinder would be the traditional uk.d-i-y answer for 20kg of ballast.

[SantaUK]

lol - all in the DIY spirit of things!

[SantaUK]

Wonder if SWMBO would love me to be melting some lead! The delivery piece was £8!

Thanks anyway

Regards

SantaUK

[NT]

why not call local scrappie

NT

[Spamlet]

Amazing how you get out of the water with 20k lead plus the tanks!

Could you fashion a wrap around from flashing?

S

[Mark Spice]

Trust me you really want shot

rather than lumps of lead on a belt as the former is far more comfortable as it conforms itself to you. Also if you drop it you are somewhat less likely to break toes.

Cheers

Mark

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[Frank Erskine]

The difficulty is building a tall-enough shot tower innit.

[ARWadsworth]

Well if you followed The Medway Handymans suggestion you are actually high enough to do that.

Cheers

Adam

[Frank Erskine]

I'd _never_ follow that guy's suggestions - he advocates the universal use of some stuff commonly known as "WD-40".

;-)

[The Medway Handyman]

You just wait till the revolution - your name is top of the list :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

You just wait till the revolution - your name is top of the list :-)

[Matty F]

I just put hooks on these large lead balls.

will be able to guess what they are for! (Nothing to do with fishing)

[Andy Burns]

The world's least effective Newton's cradle?

[Bob Eager]

Nobody worry. All the guns will be gunged up with WD-40.

[Matty F]

I knew somebody would say that! They are counterweights to take up the slack in the cords that are used to pull down tram poles.

[geoff]

I thought they were robot testicles

[Dave Liquorice]

Damn I was going to say counter weights for a cord, I was thinking of the tensioning the passenger operated "ding ding" cord. But having to guess the size and coming up with about 1 1/2" dia decided that they would be bit heavy for that.