On Oct 22, 7:57 pm, "Adam Corolla"
wrote:
"William Noble" wrote in message

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We own a fishing tackle store here in South Africa - the price of
lead here too has rocketed - even here the lead is being sent to China
from the scrap merchants - not good for sinker prices !!!! Soon it
wont only be Bismuth sinkers that are outrageously priced !!!

Tim

Then you'll have to go with tungsten, or maybe iridium... You can get
pure tungsten for three dollars an ounce, and it's about 75% heavier than
lead! But I guess even with lead's price increase, it's still much
cheaper than tungsten. Iridium is almost double the density of pure
lead, but an ounce of iridium would be over seven hundred dollars. You'd
have to be one wildly successful fisherman to justify iridium sinkers...

and what is wrong with using a rock for a sinker? they are still free

Well, then, why not use rocks in place of toilet paper? After all, rocks
are free, right?

Just because something is free doesn't mean it's good to be used for any
particular thing.

although in this case "rock" is semi suitable

slighty more so than using unwanted laser printed sheets of paper as
toilet paper (Can you imagine the paper cuts that would cause in the
LAST place you EVER want a paper cut)