FREE OR Free, Lee lead pots

ditchtiger · Nov 3, 2016

Free to a good home, or a not so good home. I'm not going to judge.
Monroe, Oregon
not going to diagnosis why I quite using them, I don't remember.

tashworth1 · Nov 3, 2016

your in box is full however i will take them if you ship on my dime. pm me please

ditchtiger · Nov 3, 2016

tashworth1 said:
your in box is full however i will take them if you ship on my dime. pm me please

OK, will get a shipping price
They are your's.

tashworth1 · Nov 3, 2016

ditchtiger said:
OK, will get a shipping price
They are your's.

thank you sir

ditchtiger · Nov 3, 2016

tashworth1 said:
thank you sir

Emptied PM box. send me an address please.

Velzey · Nov 3, 2016

My best recommendation, is to setup a fan and blow the fumes away from you. I've seen a few guys get sick casting bollits in a closed space with no ventilation..

gtivan · Nov 3, 2016

If for some reason the first deal falls through. I will like to put my name in the hat. Willing to drive to pick up.

Mistman · Nov 3, 2016

Velzey said:
I've seen a few guys get sick casting bollits in a closed space with no ventilation..

Excellent point, lead poisoning can be quite detrimental and serious. It's a heavy metal and has an accumulative effect, even guys that load a lot of lead bullets have found elevated levels in their systems. Primers actually are one of the worse offenders and why indoor ranges should and usually do have good ventilation. Good ventilation and clean hands will keep you safe.

P7M13 · Nov 7, 2016

Lead - ugh. I grew up playing with lead soldiers, and all the wine my parent's bought was wrapped in lead foil. We thought the foil was the coolest, and used it in our slingshots. Us kids just drank Boone's Farm & Mad Dog (screw caps.)

You absorb it through your skin, especially your cuticles.
Blowing it away will help only if you are outdoors. In fact, just venting lead fumes outside is not responsible or a good idea - it creates its own host of problems. If you blow it towards your tomato patch, you'll just eat it in 60 days.
Lead poisoning, in addition to making you just-plain-dumb, has been linked to infertility in men and autism in their offspring. One of the places it's stored in the body is in the testicles. I made my own PCBs and soldered electronics doing R&D at home for years and years, found out the hard way. The studies I read about it were in 2000.
If you're industrious, education/kid/house poor like I was, installing a ventilator which pulls through a HEPA & carbon filter will cost <$50, most of it being the cost of the filters. I picked up the blower at Goodwill (people get rid of the blowers that inflate those kid-bounce castles) and dumpster dove for the vent hose. Dryer hose will work nicely.
Vent systems made for lead soldering are ungodly expensive.

There's lots of data about it out there. Lots of info on how to protect yourself. Believe it or not, you are in more danger of lead exposure when you shoot uncoated lead bullets in a closed air space than if you cast those same bullets. The worst lead poisoning is when you are hit.

ditchtiger · Nov 8, 2016

No one mentioned water and molten lead. Very bad mixture.
A son brought over some wheel weights from his garage.
some had some condensation on them we did not see. ruins your day fast to see a lead/steam explosion. No one hurt.

gtivan · Nov 8, 2016

Most important of all.
A pot full of molten lead at 650 degrees is an awesome thing.

148 grain 38 special wadcutters with bullseye is awesome.
240 grain elmer keith 44 mags with some trail boss makes for a fun day
I have some 169 30 cals waiting for my 30.06

Life is good when you cast.

joken · Nov 13, 2016

I have a friend that nearly died from lead poisoning back in the 70's. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with him for a long time. He lost his job and career. Yes, I cast.