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Baz 07-03-2021 04:13 PM

What are some uses for sheet lead?
 
I have some in a 12" width. I think it's the 1/16" variety. Bends pretty easy.

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Arizona_928 07-03-2021 04:15 PM

Faraday cage

dad911 07-03-2021 04:25 PM

Used to be used for plumbing and flashing, don't know any modern uses.

drcoastline 07-03-2021 04:26 PM

Flashing, shower liner, Bullets?

Crowbob 07-03-2021 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arizona_928 (Post 11381118)
Faraday cage

You could wrap the ECU’s in your cars. Then when the EMP hits you could still drive to the gas station where the computers on all the pumps are fried.

nota 07-03-2021 04:35 PM

likely better at blocking what you fear the CIA / NSA REDS whoever is attacking with
then the amateur level tin foil aka aluminum foil

URY914 07-03-2021 04:36 PM

Do you have an x-ray machine? You could use it to make a apron. ;)

Baz 07-03-2021 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by URY914 (Post 11381144)
Do you have an x-ray machine? You could use it to make a apron. ;)

I was looking online earlier and one lady wrote in an Amazon review she used it in her lap when she used her laptop so she could still have children one day.

I bet she was being serious too! :eek:

Baz 07-03-2021 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dad911 (Post 11381134)
Used to be used for plumbing and flashing, don't know any modern uses.

Thanks - that's all I had for uses as well. This stuff is HEAVY as hell!!! :D

Crowbob 07-03-2021 04:49 PM

Personally, I’d wrap the microwave, too.

dw1 07-03-2021 05:31 PM

Back in the day we used sandwiches of foam with thin sheet lead in the middle as a combination acoustic insulation, mechanical vibration damping, and electrical shielding.

Thin copper plating and conductive paints have replaced it for shielding, but I would love to have some to play around with, and to make myself a set of "leads" like I used to use when doing fluoroscopy in the lab.

And, of course, I could go really "old school" and use lead instead of Bondo...

Racerbvd 07-03-2021 05:37 PM

Works better than tin foil for a protective helmet.

Tobra 07-03-2021 07:42 PM

Pretty sure they use something like that for shielding in walls around xray equipment

herr_oberst 07-03-2021 07:54 PM

Last time I had x-rays they made me cover my nuts with a sheet of lead wrapped in fabric.
The woman tech called it the fig leaf. We all had a laugh.

Arizona_928 07-03-2021 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crowbob (Post 11381138)
You could wrap the ECU’s in your cars. Then when the EMP hits you could still drive to the gas station where the computers on all the pumps are fried.

Just get a long enough hose and suck it out of the tank lol

Bill Douglas 07-03-2021 08:20 PM

I've got a pile of the stuff too. I gave a wheel barrow load to a guy at pistol club and he was jumping up and down about it saying it was the right stuff for blah blah blah (strange bastard).

Jeff Higgins 07-03-2021 08:53 PM

Great for casting round balls, Minie' balls, and Maxi balls for muzzle loader shooting. Those all require pure, dead soft lead, such as this sheeting. Add about one part tin to 20 parts lead and it makes wonderful revolver bullets and black powder cartridge (.45-70, etc.) bullets.

URY914 07-04-2021 02:20 AM

If you put it on offerup or CL someone will jump on it. Or take it to a scape metal place. $$$

Geronimo '74 07-04-2021 03:29 AM

Raingutters

vash 07-04-2021 07:16 AM

No way the dead body floats up wrapped up in that stuff.


Now go was your hands Bax.


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