Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Cheap and heavy...

["Mark Steed" <plutomark@mail.astate.edu>]

Good point-A paranoid old reloader agrees wholeheartedly. Get the mask you mention and get the fans running and don't forget the heavy gloves and safety glasses. Something else I will metion-Used wheel weights are ideal but be damned sure and wash them really well prior to melting. Where salt has been used on roadways, it can accumulate on the wheel weights. Salt and molten lead make for a helluva mess. Good luck and best regards- Mark

Mark E. Steed
Arkansas State University Museum
110 Cooley Drive,PO Box#490
State University, AR 72467-0490 
USA
Tel#(870)972-2074 Fax#(870)972-2793
Email: plutomark@mail.astate.edu



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: NeophyteSG@aol.com
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date:  Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:03:25 EST

>
>Just an interjection from a paranoid old hippie but lead poisoning from their 
>state of the art (for the time) plumbing is considered by many scholars as a 
>major contributor to the fall of the Roman Empire.  Our bodies simply aren't 
>equipped with a mechanism to excrete heavy metals and the effects are usually 
>permanently debilitating (severe neurological dysfunction), so *please* make 
>sure you have adequate ventilation and preferably a lead-specific respirator 
>when melting lead.  
>
>Warm Regards
>Shawn
>
>*****
>
>"Call nothing thy own except thy soul.
>Love not what thou art, but only what thou may become.
>Do not pursue pleasure, for thou may have the misfortune to overtake it...
>Live in the vision of that one for whom great deeds are done ..." 
>
>Man of LaMancha, D. Wasserman
>
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