Fishing Lead
Fishing Lead
Shadelady said:
Jim, well i didn't figure it couldnt hurt to ask. mind if i ask where you get your lead from? i am always looking to save a dollar.
Evening, Miss,
Well, actually I've been collecting lead for a number of years from various sources. Tire balancing weights, used car batteries, and I knew an outfit that manufactured lead lined doors for hospital x-ray rooms. At one time I worked for an outfit in Portland that made these doors. You just haven't lived a full life until you have tried to move a 280 lb. door across the floor without it getting away from you. And if it starts coming your way, it is really in your best interest to get out of the way. Danged thing would mash you into a grease spot!
I've been melting my own weights since I was a kid. Now they tell us that handling lead and breathing the fumes can do all kinds of serious damage to your health. Heck, when I was going up and working with my Dad painting, we used lead-based paints and mixed our own putty--a mixture of turpentine, a little paint, and white lead, and we kneaded it together in the palm of our hand! Is this stuff bad for you? Probably, and I don't suggest that you melt lead inside the house or spend a lot of time breathing in the fumes, but I suspect that we all come in contact with stuff every day that is even more hazardous. I do know that I ain't never gotten ecoli or swine flu from pouring lead!
I know a guy that works for a golf course and he is going to save me some golf balls. Says they give them to the Vets to golf with. Well, I'm a vet, get me a couple of dozen! I want to try them. Probably be a study come out in a month or so stating that used golf balls have been shown to cause cancer in Asian lab rats. Well, those rats shouldn't have been golfing in the first place!
Chief Jim