how can I make homemade sheet lead?

I got very close because I did find the aluminum and copper flashing at HD. There was a heavy roll of 50' flashing made by a company called Amerimax, but it was galvanized so I didn't know if it was lead. Maybe it is and I've just been missing it thinking it was aluminum or steel.

That failing, locate a seller who

Thanks, Joe

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:39:50 +0100, Andy Dingley vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:

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hahahaha! Round here that's an oxymoron.

Read "Take lead to scrapyard - swap for _half_ its weight of roofing lead" and I might start to hear you.

The scrappies round here buy (steel admittedly, but the principles apply) for about $100/tonne then sell it to me for $1000/tonne.

***************************************************** Have you noticed that people always run from what they _need_ toward what they want?????

Perhaps he's telling you where to look for the material.

Kevin Gallimore

Once again, proving P T Barnum's adage..

Joe

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:47:32 +1300, Joe vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:

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How?

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You need to be friendlier to your scrappie.

Last time I was in our #1 favourite, they even let me stroke the dogs.

Except they're not really dogs, they're Phillip Pullman's panzerbjörn

- armoured bears whose life in a scrapyard has taught them to forge their own bodyarmour. We normally live in fear of those beasts, and their slavering jaws snapping inches from your ear as you pass down the narrow gangway past their day cage to where all The Really Good Stuff is kept.

Feeding time, with their pack leader present though, they're pussycats.

Ask around at some remodeling sites/companies... I recently bent the bike basket I recently made (oh, I gotta take pictures of that) taking home about

20 pounds of lead from cast iron sewer line joints from my job. Made a nice long angle iron ingot, soft as hell... literally, stiff metallic clay...

Tim

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The Romans used to pour it into a horizontal wooden trough, only just over melting point, and used a strickle board running along the top of the trough to form it into an even thin layer. Apparently you can still see fine wood grain in some Roman lead cistern sides !

Nowadays of course it is 'milled' - squashed between rollers,

Andrew Mawson Bromley, Kent, UK

replying to Joe Travis, Seeker wrote: I'm wanting to try this as well. My best guess is to create a vertical mold out of wood. Basically a pair of flat sheets of wood sandwiched with spacers. It might be destroyed after a few pours but it would make thin flat sheets.

Preheat a shallow baking tray and pour in the amount you need and then let it cool?

Yes, the pipe organ makers did it like this: They had a leveled surface plate, placed "dams" in the right place to limit the size and poured lead, tin or solder in to the desired thickness. There were weights to prevent the dams from moving.

So, they did it horizontally.

Jon