Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

Brings back memories of melting down and recasting my Dad's old lead
soldiers on the fire when I was a kid. (Oh how I wish I'd never done
that...)

David

"Lobster" wrote in message
...
Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left
over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I
can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

Make a death mask. You don't need a corpse, I've done it with wax.

Melt it down and make noseweights for model aeroplanes. Spouse never
scrapped a car without taking off the wheel weights for that ...

Brings back memories of melting down and recasting my Dad's old lead
soldiers on the fire when I was a kid. (Oh how I wish I'd never done
that...)

Melt it and cast lead soldiers and paint them and sell them at huge prices
to antique dealers.

Make spindle whorls. That's our latest use for scrap lead.

If all else fails, don't bin them, weigh them in.

Mary


David

Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left
over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I
can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

Brings back memories of melting down and recasting my Dad's old lead
soldiers on the fire when I was a kid. (Oh how I wish I'd never done
that...)

I recently ripped 28Kg of lead piping out my loft - after playing with it
for a bit, and developing a nasty rash, I took it to a scrappy and got 8
quid for it! Jobs a good'un. :-)
Last checked, they were offering £300 per metric tonne for lead although
prices seem to change dramatically depending on who you phone. They were
quite happy to take it in small quantities though.

Andy

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:20:37 GMT, "Lobster"
wrote:

Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

Brings back memories of melting down and recasting my Dad's old lead
soldiers on the fire when I was a kid. (Oh how I wish I'd never done
that...)

David


Give it to the kids to play with.

Rick

Janet Baraclough.. wrote:

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Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!


You could use it to roof bird nest boxes, or a bird table. Or make
covers for the tops of wooden fence posts.

Janet.



noseweight for model gliders.

www.bmfa.org for your nearest club, and give it to the guys there. They
will love you forever.

Melt down the lead and cast as curtain weights.

Regards
Capitol

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:20:37 GMT, "Lobster"
wrote:

Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

Brings back memories of melting down and recasting my Dad's old lead
soldiers on the fire when I was a kid. (Oh how I wish I'd never done
that...)

David


Don't do what I did when younger and melt it down on your mum's cooker
coz you'll only spill it on the worktop like I did. :-)

Mark S.

"Mark S." wrote in message
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Brings back memories of melting down and recasting my Dad's old lead
soldiers on the fire when I was a kid. (Oh how I wish I'd never done
that...)

David


Don't do what I did when younger and melt it down on your mum's cooker
coz you'll only spill it on the worktop like I did. :-)

Don't all boys do that?

And men, come to think of it ...

Mary

Mark S.

Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

add it to old wheel weights to get a better casting alloy for muzzle
loading bullets

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:20:37 GMT, "Lobster"
wrote:

Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!

Donate to a church.

MM

Makeweights for sash windows.

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:10:46 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Don't do what I did when younger and melt it down on your mum's cooker
coz you'll only spill it on the worktop like I did. :-)

Don't all boys do that?

And men, come to think of it ...

Here's an email I recently received from a friend, re his latest
exploding kitchen horror.


:
:I was clearing up my kitchen (a friend turned up, and was plainly
:disgusted, and having glanced at the kitchen surfaces, politely refused a
:cup of coffee with a shudder), and found the cast iron glue pot that, in
:accordance with the recommendation of Tubal Cain, I had been using as a
:tempering bath. The sodium nitrate therein was rather soggy, so I thought I
:would heat it up, dry it out and seal it up. I therefore set it on the
:hotplate. Five minutes later, I noticed liquid all over the top of the
:stove. The (rude words deleted) pot had cracked and was leaking. I killed
:the heat, and transferred it to the sink, where it sizzled ferociously
:under the tap. Meanwhile, I got some thick heavy cotton denim, and (having
:soaked it well in water, because sodium nitrate is an oxidizing agent),
:used this to mop up the spillage before it ate into the stove, rinsing it
:well between wipes. Unfortunately, I had underestimated how quickly such a
:cloth can dry on a suitably hot surface... a small portion of it did,
:hissed viciously and belched out a huge cloud of grey evil smelling smoke
:and steam, followed by a load of orange flames, at which point it got slung
:into the sink and the incipient fire demon drowned.
:
:I would strongly recommend that (following the previous debacle on
:mainspring tempering) anything written by Tubal F****** Cain to be treated
:with a degree of skepticism. I've never regarded cast iron as a good
:material for anything, and cast iron glue pots absolutely do not make safe
:tempering baths, steel would be much better!
:

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:10:46 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Don't do what I did when younger and melt it down on your mum's cooker
coz you'll only spill it on the worktop like I did. :-)

Don't all boys do that?

And men, come to think of it ...

Here's an email I recently received from a friend, re his latest
exploding kitchen horror.


:
:I was clearing up my kitchen (a friend turned up, and was plainly
:disgusted, and having glanced at the kitchen surfaces, politely refused
a
:cup of coffee with a shudder),

He wasn't being invited to lick it from the surface!

and found the cast iron glue pot that, in
:accordance with the recommendation of Tubal Cain, I had been using as a
:tempering bath. The sodium nitrate therein was rather soggy, so I
thought I
:would heat it up, dry it out and seal it up. I therefore set it on the
:hotplate. Five minutes later, I noticed liquid all over the top of the
:stove. The (rude words deleted) pot had cracked and was leaking. I
killed
:the heat, and transferred it to the sink, where it sizzled ferociously
:under the tap. Meanwhile, I got some thick heavy cotton denim, and
(having
:soaked it well in water, because sodium nitrate is an oxidizing agent),
:used this to mop up the spillage before it ate into the stove, rinsing
it
:well between wipes. Unfortunately, I had underestimated how quickly such
a
:cloth can dry on a suitably hot surface... a small portion of it did,
:hissed viciously and belched out a huge cloud of grey evil smelling
smoke
:and steam, followed by a load of orange flames, at which point it got
slung
:into the sink and the incipient fire demon drowned.

He'd invented gun cotton - or something similar!
:
:I would strongly recommend that (following the previous debacle on
:mainspring tempering) anything written by Tubal F****** Cain to be
treated
:with a degree of skepticism. I've never regarded cast iron as a good
:material for anything, and cast iron glue pots absolutely do not make
safe
:tempering baths, steel would be much better!

Brilliant story. Thanks, Andy

Mary

"Andy Dingley" wrote
| Here's an email I recently received from a friend, re his
| latest exploding kitchen horror.

It's the "latest" bit that worries me.

Owain

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:10:00 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

He wasn't being invited to lick it from the surface!

You haven't seen this guy's kitchen !


He'd invented gun cotton - or something similar!

He wouldn't touch anything so modern - the guy is a black powder
shooter.

A year or two back he was doing some hot bluing on steel (firearms
again). You do this by cooking the bits up in a pan of nitrate salts.
Your choice though is whether to use simple nitrates (which are a
powerful oxidiser, have a high melting point, and will set fire to any
form of stirring stick) or to use a eutectic mix of nitrates and
caustic soda. This has a lower melting point, but it's now corrosive.
--
Smert' spamionam

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
news
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:10:00 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

He wasn't being invited to lick it from the surface!

You haven't seen this guy's kitchen !


He'd invented gun cotton - or something similar!

He wouldn't touch anything so modern - the guy is a black powder
shooter.

I'd gathered that from the state of his kitchen :-)

A year or two back he was doing some hot bluing on steel (firearms
again). You do this by cooking the bits up in a pan of nitrate salts.
Your choice though is whether to use simple nitrates (which are a
powerful oxidiser, have a high melting point, and will set fire to any
form of stirring stick) or to use a eutectic mix of nitrates and
caustic soda. This has a lower melting point, but it's now corrosive.

I'm sure Spouse has blued steel physically rather than chemically ... I'll
ask him.

If I remember.

It's not something we do every day, being totally non-combatant :-)

Mary
--
Smert' spamionam

"Mark S." wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:20:37 GMT, "Lobster"
wrote:

Just finished a flashing repair job and have quite a few offcuts left
over.
Does anybody have any creative/interesting/useful/fun use for this? I
can't
bring myself just to bin it; maybe it's just that lead sheeting is such
fascinating stuff to play with!



We used to melt this down to make scuba diving weights, always collected
lead flashing offcuts ... and occasionally stuff that wasn't offcut. ;-)