Used a carpenter hand saw this afternoon and cut up a .25"X32"X32" sheet of lead and some lead pipe I bought at the local scrap yard (90 cents a pound but doubt if it will get any cheaper) came up with 71 pounds in pieces I can melt down into ingots. I have more to do but it's a start, cutting that big sheet stuff showed me how out of shape I'm getting. I'm figuring I have about 300 pounds set aside for now, better find some more.
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I'm becoming a regular at my local scrap yard myself. They always have a lot of good lead and they let me pick through and find all the best stuff. And yes it is quite a workout cutting big chunks of lead! 
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Saw All works great 
If you don't have one Harbor Freight Cheap
If you don't have one Harbor Freight Cheap
Woody Morgan
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Must have been cutting lead like a demon. 
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" cut up a .25"X32"X32" sheet of lead " do you know what it was used for?
Where I live houses are about 100 years old or less, I have talked to some "Dirt work" Foremen who have been digging the valley up for 50 years and can't remember ever seeing a lead pipe. It's a great place to drink tape water, but damned hard on scrap lead hunters.
Where I live houses are about 100 years old or less, I have talked to some "Dirt work" Foremen who have been digging the valley up for 50 years and can't remember ever seeing a lead pipe. It's a great place to drink tape water, but damned hard on scrap lead hunters.
It was a hell of a job but with a little prayer we saw our way though to the other side.Must have been cutting lead like a demon.
I haven't a clue, I've never seen lead sheet that thick before but it's a heavy bugger. I keep getting lead pipe every once in awhile but it's getting harder and harder to find. I buy it whenever I can, a neighbor brought me 90 pounds of it last summer.
Thin sheets you can score and they rip apart fairly easy.
"a great place to drink tape water,"
This thread is a great place to play with typoes!
In all seriousness, I was wishing there was some was I could get my hands on all that lead water pipe that they've been replacing in Detroit. The risk of getting shot isn't worth it.
This thread is a great place to play with typoes!
In all seriousness, I was wishing there was some was I could get my hands on all that lead water pipe that they've been replacing in Detroit. The risk of getting shot isn't worth it.
Actually you did one yourself. Typos, not typoes!
Actually you did one yourself. Typos, not typoes!
Uhhh, I sort of did that to see if anyone was awake!
These are a full quarter inch thick. I've never seen sheet lead this thick,
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I've never seen it but maybe it was for Xray room walls.
Some radiation monitoring areas at Nuclear plants have lead lined walls too lower the background levels . 1/4” thick sheet lead is commonly used for this purpose.
X-ray rooms and equipment are another possible source of sheet lead.. Congrats good find!
X-ray rooms and equipment are another possible source of sheet lead.. Congrats good find!
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The lead I got when they redid the local hospital x ray room was about 1/8 inch thick. The "wire" coils that they used to solder in the new was 1/4 diameter and in 25 lb rolls. So it probably could be from x ray walls.
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You are lucky, here in California the scrap metal yards are not allowed to sell lead to the public.
Obsolete 1950's era telephone microwave relay huts had wonderful 1/8" thick sheets of shielding lead in them. Friend of mine harvested a bunch of it. These relay systems were coast to coast across high ground. Perhaps someone can figure where some of it went.
