CDN suggestions for copper and brass.

you can still get lead sheeting, it is used all the time in xray rooms for sheilding, here is one site or you can google lots of sites

Go to your local hobby shop. They usually carry brass sheet, strip and rod and the rod goes up to at least 1/8th.

Alternatively, check out a knifemakers supply house.

--RC

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I use rod mostly over 1/8. Welding/braising rods are a 5th of the price of hobby shop stuff. I can't afford to use it. I was getting my stuff from a welding supply house.

If one of these exist in Canada I don't know it. I can't think of what they would have I could use. Copper wire is my biggest problem at the moment.

You might try a scrapper. My Grandfather used to repair electric motors and I remember him burning the coating of the windings before sending them off to the scrapper. It seems to me he also had to clean them up before they got turned in. So someone has already done the stripping work for you.

Not here. It would bring serious fines to burn coatings off wire. Believe me if it was legal I'd do it myself.:)

My local scrap yard is a gold mine for copper sheet, tin, etc, but BIG copper wire stripped, brass rod, and anything lead is real scarce.

It probably wan't legal then either. But living in the country, where the nearest neigbours are your children has it's advantages.