"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:

But you must be able to buy lead used for flashings etc.

You can buy rolls of lead at any builders' merchant. Some years ago we
experimented with it as weights to hold cables down on flat roofs.

Yeah, I'd forgotten that I have some myself that I got
that way, used as flashings around the sewer vents
where they go thru the metal decking flat roof.

The weights used for wheel balancing as the TurNiP pointed out too.