MauriceMynah Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Lead in the water? Heaven forbid, unless of course you use old water pipes what nevver urt nuffin. For melting lead when I was doing it often, I usewd an old wok on a gas ring (butane) and ladled the molton lead into the frog of a brick. This gave me ingots of lead weighing about 10lbs (4.5kg). These stacked quite nicely, made excellent boat ballast and were useful for any number of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 1 hour ago, JennyMorgan said: Re quantity I was working on 'Spray' up at Martham Boats when I watched the 'boys' melting lead for a sailing boat keel exactly as I described, just a question of scale. Precisely Peter. They must have cast hundreds of lead ballast pigs over the decades, and I've used their well equipped metalworking area during one of my refits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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