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Steve,
If you have a smelter or a steel pot you can melt lead on a stove element
outdoors or with very good ventilation.
You can cast them outdoors and have a proper respirator on.
Don't cast them to more than five Kg a piece , they are not easy to move.
After casting you can paint them with zinc chromate primer and then marine
paint on top.
If you leave the weights as they are the heat of the summer releases lead
oxide and it is
very dangerous, causes cancer and brain damage, take every pre-caution you
can.
I cast lead bullets for target practice and it is something you don't want
to do
very often.
Yanni Marinated
S/V Princess Thalia
Hamilton
www.yannismarine.ca
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From: "Steve Wight" <>
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 7:44 PM
Subject: lv-ab: Lead Ballast
> Someone on this list made me a believer about the hazards of lead oxide -
> I have some 30 kg. ingots I want to use as movable ballast. Any
> suggestions on casing them for handling?
>
> Steve Wight
> Fales, 'Gulli'
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