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MauriceMynah

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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.

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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.

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