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Tim S wrote:
I'd also considered soft soldering, but I reckon I'd need a rather lage
blowtorch to get the roof hot enough (and burning the wood), whereas
with lead burning, I'm hoping it works like welding, where a mentally
hot small flame does the work in a very localised fashion.

I had a small split on one corner of a lead cover over some pipe ducting
which was easily accessible (being on a roof terrace) so decided to have a
go and got good results using ordinary elctronics leaded multicore and a
small 'jewellers' butane blowlamp. I practised on some scrap first. Lead
isn't that good a conductor of heat. But you'd need a still day for this
to work easily.

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