Lead shot

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

Hmm - thanks. I'd never heard of it!

The scones my mother-in-law used to make would be ideal.

Bill

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.

Possibly not. I think I'll keep quiet about the arson.

Bill

Use nuclear waste so you get a nice warm glow.

All of my stock of solder is real tin/lead. All other stuff is bogus.

I have a sufficiency of that, but it does seem a bit of a clart pouring it into a sparklets bulb.

It'd look awful.

Safer?

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!

In message , Frank Erskine writes

There will be a world shortage

... I bought 36 kg of 60/40/ today

In message , Arfa Daily writes

in round terms

IIRC

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