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Default Identifying Leaded Steel?

steamer wrote in news:4b85824c$0$1584
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--Just a guess but I'll bet if you rubbed your finger along a
squeaky clean one you might get a black smudge buildup on finger.


That's gonna take some work. The suspect items were wrapped in newspaper,
and the bits that aren't covered in small filings cemented on with old
sulfur cutting fluid are rusty.

Doug White