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from tony sayer contains these words:

Course this skill was what the old timer plumbers used, join lead to
lead, and a very nice job they used to make too!....

I remember marevelling at the wiped lead joints under the downstairs
toilet's sink as a kid. That place was built late 50s - when did lead
pipe go out?

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