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  1. J

    Looking for Useful uses for lead

    Ye a lot of silver mines with high lead content make you shower before you can go to break and ban smoking. Working with lead sucks for the guys who like to touch there face with dirty hands and people who don't wash there hands enough. Which you can really tell who those people are when you...
  2. J

    Looking for Useful uses for lead

    @Dan Dubeau Shot tower would be fun but I think there more then 200' @thestelster I thought about some soft jaws using some of the harder lead so it would last longer. @Mcgyver That's why I like being in the sticks more then city I can get away with more stuff :) not sure if handling lead...
  3. J

    Looking for Useful uses for lead

    Could be steel aswell as they are very light compared to to other weights Easy to test with magnet. probly is mixed in to some extent as wheel weights are sorta mutt metal can be pure or have various amounts of tin zinc antimony and few other things mixed in. I would like to figure out how to...
  4. J

    Looking for Useful uses for lead

    Zinc is a lot harder then the lead and makes different sound when you tap it on concrete. Another way if you can control melting temp is to keep the lead under zinc melting temp and it just floats on top. Some weights also have ZN stamped on them
  5. J

    Looking for Useful uses for lead

    Nope mostly lead so far I thought there would be more zinc but from the 1 bucket I've started sorting it's 20% steel 60% lead and 10% zinc and 10% wheel lug nuts
  6. J

    Looking for Useful uses for lead

    I got few buckets of lead/zinc wheel weights from a tire shop and was gonna hoard some zinc for brass making and then use some of the lead for Babbitt and few lead hammers. Besides those uses I was curious if anyone had any other uses a guy could do with lead around the workshop considering I...
  7. J

    Another Brown and Sharpe

    jealous of the mill I want to get a good Horizontal to go with my vertical mill. If you have extra 1000lbs of Weight laying around tie it to back of the forklift it could probly pick the machine up off flat deck enough to pull trailer out from under it atleast. Shouldn't even have to mess with...
  8. J

    Interesting way to gain some swing on lathe

    Came across this video on YouTube and thought it was interesting maybe come in handy for someone?
  9. J

    Electric mag chuck controller?

    Sorta it keeps a good amount of magnetism till you remove the part. But if power did go off in middle of grind it could throw your part if it's small or taking heavy cuts. The mag chuck controller has demagnetization timer on it to release the part
  10. J

    Electric mag chuck controller?

    The surface grinder I bought came with electro magnetic chuck But no controller instead it came with a bridge rectifier. Which works for now but makes getting parts off without sliding near impossible. I'm thinking of ordering a AliExpress controller AliExpress controller 100$ Does anyone have...
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