What are some uses for sheet lead?

[Baz]

I have some in a 12" width. I think it's the 1/16" variety. Bends pretty easy.

[Arizona_928]

Faraday cage

[dad911]

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

[drcoastline]

Flashing, shower liner, Bullets?

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

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]

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]

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

[Baz]

Originally Posted by URY914

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!

[Baz]

Originally Posted by dad911

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!!!

[Crowbob]

Personally, I’d wrap the microwave, too.

[dw1]

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]

Works better than tin foil for a protective helmet.

[Tobra]

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

[herr_oberst]

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]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

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]

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]

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]

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

[Geronimo '74]

Raingutters

[vash]

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


Now go was your hands Bax.