Just came from the local hospital and picked up well over 1000 lbs of lead just for the asking. My poor Chevy 1/2 ton is setting with the frame pinned down to the axle. All you got to do is check in with one of the people at nuclear medicine. The hospital I get mine from has to pay a scrapper $.25 a pound to have it hauled away. Just look for me at the local shoots, I'll be the one with the ingots stacked up 6 ft. tall. Rick.
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Chuck Deaton
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Does that nuclear lead give you an eerie green glow?
It comes in the form of the vials that the isotopes come in. Most weight 2 to 4 lbs a piece but I got a dozen that weigh 50 lbs each, they're the ones for the cat scan machines. All pure clean lead that just has paint on it, burns off in the casting pot and floats when fluxed. Speaking of flux, have any of you used borax as flux? Bees wax is getting expensive and at times is hard to get locally. Rick.
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Deaddawg,
Not sure about that lead ya got, but stay away from lead that come out of old x-ray rooms.
Hotter (radio-active) as all get go. Ya can smell it with the giger clicker. Nowa day's yer soapposta get rid of it in some safe sorta way.
If ya are already usin' the stuff, I'd keep the ammo pouch as far from the family jewels are ya can get it. :shocking:
Spot
Not sure about that lead ya got, but stay away from lead that come out of old x-ray rooms.
Hotter (radio-active) as all get go. Ya can smell it with the giger clicker. Nowa day's yer soapposta get rid of it in some safe sorta way.
If ya are already usin' the stuff, I'd keep the ammo pouch as far from the family jewels are ya can get it. :shocking:
Spot
Spot, the only time lead can absorb radiation is if it is alloyed with something. Check past posts on lead, Musketman posted a scale on radioactive material. This is all isotope vials and 100% pure lead, that is all it can be shipped in by law. 'sides that, no worry about the family jewels, got snipped about 15 years ago. Rick.
I agree, I work as a nurse and any radioactive material is closely monitored. With everybody so lawsuit happy and the hospitals knowing this best they would never allow 1,000 micrograms out of the place in anyone's hands other than a licensed hazmat disposal company. Any problem would be convincing somelaboratory perfected idiot that it is safe.
DEADDAWG: You'll never have to stay lost in the woods.They can find You at night by the glow.I would imagine the pure lead would not absorb the radio active material.but I think I would check it with a gieger counter! it could have dust particles on the surface! Or did the hospitol crew check it ?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif ::
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Hey, you guys are missing the boat again. Deaddawg can find his down deer after dark, they will be the ones with glowing holes. Beats a half dead flashlight. ::
