Lead ballast nicked

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!/2 ton of lead ingots ,about 12lb each stolen,I have not found anything remotely similar without very expensive bespoke manufacture.

Anyone any ideas for a relatively convenient substitute!
 
Try Architectural Salvage and look for sash weights; they're made of cast iron. Or make a mould, if you want nice stackable toblerones, and cast your own with concrete and high density fillers.
 
I think there was an article in PBO (but could have been Sailing Today) sometime in the last year about somebody casting their own lead ingots from scrap lead.

Yoda
 
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I think there was an article in PBO (but could have been Sailing Today) sometime in the last year about somebody casting their own lead ingots from scrap lead.

Yoda

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YES BUT hes got to buy it as some Git stole the other pile
 
try the local tyre centre...they normally give the stuff away to a good cause....recently mde 6 4 lb dive weights for a bit of hard work and saved a bomb.....1/2 a ton is a tall order though
 
On to that source already!Didn't like to say originally though that I intended to increase by 1/4 ton this season ,making requirement 3/4 ton!

Asyou suggest that's a lot of weights!

Thanks,
Michael
 
Providing you take sensible precautions, casting lead is a doddle. It isn't even all that expensive these days if bought from your local scrap dealer. I bought about 2cwt a couple of years ago. Can't remember the cost exactly, but it was somewhere in the region of £30 per cwt (which admittedly adds up if you're talking your sort of tonnage). Makes you wonder why anyone bothers to nick it.

If you use scrap lead, take care during melting as any impurities or water trapped in pipes can get lively.
 
Scrap lead £300/tonne selling - buying????.
Just got rid of a load.
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Yes I would agree with you....casting lead is fairly straight forward if you are sensible and practicle... if not leave it alone!

I cast a 750kg fin keel once and it was quite a big job. Building the furnace was easy enough. It was the lifting of the keel afterwards that caused the problems.

I would think that to cast small ingots, plywood moulds would do the job.

I sourced all my lead from local scrap merchant.

Regards Nick

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Thanks everyone!
To make it clearer i am aware of the ease of buying lead from a scrapper who has doubled his price. I can also cast it ,but I want to go sailing THIS year ,and still have other jobs to do.The work involved in casting 150 or so bars is a daunting prospect in terms of time!
 
Quote: "find em & shoot the bastards.
Oh sorry not allowed to do that unless yer names er, Irish"

I agree with the first statement, the2nd? a little un-necessary, and a bit ignorant and childish.
 
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Scrap lead £300/tonne selling - buying????.
Just got rid of a load.


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You didn't nick it from jmp's boat did you? /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
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