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Kurr
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NotABigDeal
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 Posted - 01/11/2009 : 11:42:44
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wow, the UAE! any good deals over there you wanna trade for copper?
I don't think he is located there. Pretty sure he said he was state-side at some point.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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Posted - 04/07/2009 : 20:54:10
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A note on lead that I picked up a while back in stock-car racing.
Many home-built cars use lead blockweights to provide the proper balance for the tracks. And since you can often count on the public, even mechanics, to be worried about lead (home-casting, etc) I made a few bucks turning salvaged lead wheel weights (free) into nicely molded blocks, complete with mounting holes and marked weights.
Only took a day to turn the scrap into product, but as far as I can figure I was ending up with appx 75cents a pound finished goods without having to truck out to the salvage dealer. (and with all the paint and materials gratis from site owner)
Guess the moral of this story is to remember that there is sometimes more then one way to make profit of recycling.
That, or rednecks buy anything painted racecar red, even lead.
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Posted - 05/12/2009 : 13:52:43
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MESSAGE FROM RUMOR CONTROL:
Folks, PLEASE don't melt down car battery lead!!!
It isn't just that the acid is hazardous if it gets onto your skin (and, yes, you CAN use baking soda to disable it), it is that there are other chemicals in the lead that are EXTREMELY hazardous - cadmium chief among them. You have an old battery, sell it to a scrap yard and save your health.
I know this because I cast lead for bullets and sinkers, and belong to a bullet casting forum similar in nature to this one. DON'T EVER, EVER, EVER melt down battery lead.
As to lead fumes, don't worry about them until you get the lead up to about 1200 degrees F. - though it melts at about 621 F. Most casters will heat it up to around 650 or so, then skim off higher temperature metals that they don't want (like zinc wheel weights or the steel clips that attach the WWs to the wheel). After purification, most casters will heat things up to about 700-750, and then pour into molds. You NEVER get near 1200 F. BTW, anyone who casts should use a thermometer made for that temperature range.
DO worry about lead dust (which is why anyone smart who deals with lead will wear a mask), and thoroughly wash your hands after touching it. Don't eat, drink or smoke until you have washed it off (and don't worry about absorption through the skin, this is not a worry unless you have a cut).
END OF MESSAGE FROM RUMOR CONTROL.
P.S. If any of you guys have ingots of lead, or of wheel-weight lead, I will be glad to buy them from you. The USPO will ship up to 70# of lead (or anything else) for about $12 for Priority Mail (and the postman will hate your guts). |
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