lead from batteries

[chevin]

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I.ve been using one of the wifes new stainless steel pans, the type with a copper bottom, superb is the word,the lead melts quickly and also the pan holds the heat for a while. She thinks it was stolen.

Cheers

Norrie [/QB]

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Hmmmm, I think that if one of my wife's pans vanished she would suspect me before she considered the fact that a burgler might have taken it.

[Norrie]

Chevin, How can you be so cruel ,my wife knows I am honest as the day is long , and does not suspect foul play from her beloved, she thinks it went missing from a trout fishing trip last year.

[Vagabond]

chevin:

Hmmmm, I think that if one of my wife's pans vanished she would suspect me before she considered the fact that a burgler might have taken it.

Me too ! Obviously we have wives who understand us

[Jim Roper]

I don't suppose a proper plumber's lead ladle costs a fortune. Cheaper than matrimonial grief, I suspect.

[chesters1]

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Of course in the interests of safety it was all done on the pavement in Homesdale Rd

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i used to live in holmsdale road did it have a tackleshop at one end and a cycle??? shop on a corner i remember as a very small tyke (probably about 4) going to the cycle shop for a gallon of parrafin and as usual uttering the words of the time "can my mum pay friday " (or words to that effect) maybe my aflictions come from people spilling acid on the pavement and me inhaling the fumes we lived in 2 rooms above a strange family and next door to a mr deeley an ex mayor???and a great piano player if i remember , i also remember spotting a tin trainset i was given as a present in the shed of the house owners and wondering why it was there as it had "disapeared" on hindsight it had probably been sold by mum my dads sailors pay didnt go far then

[poledark]

Chesters, you are right, it is the same road. Tackle shop long gone and "Old man Deeley" as well. Would it surprise you (probably not) to know that "Old man Deeley" was the father of one of my Brothers in Law!!!!!!!!

 

Beat that for a coincidence

 

Den

[chesters1]

does that mean were related

we moved to napier road after that , at the end of the road was a very frightening white haired gentleman who ran a sweetshop i went in once and chose elsewhere to get sweets , we went back when i was 19 on a "roots" mission AND HE WAS STILL THERE completely unchanged times WERE different then cars stayed unmoved from the kirb and i used to walk to ST Marks??(bottom of masons hill) school alone at 5 ,nowadays i suspect any child walking anywhere would be front page news

 

[ 23. June 2003, 11:05 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Jeff S]

chesters1:

the lead isnt very pure nick as a battery charges the lead changes and slowly after a while its composed of lead sulphate ,lead and other lead compounds the buildup of the lead compounds is why the battery dies i expect with LOTS of batteries a usuable amount of lead is collected , my tips is use an IRON pot to melt the lead , put it on a well stoked barbicue and blast it with air from a leaf blower ,this gets it as hot as a blast furnace ( well a cool one ) and it being outside is safer any nasty vapours will be blasted away

this will melt lead VERY fast the drawback though is that the base of the barbie wont last long

whoops you do have trees on muck??? otherwise leafblowers will be rarer than hens teeth

Nick, anything that isn't pure lead will float to the top when you are heating it. You can scoop this off the top and toss it.

 

On Ascension Island in the S. Atlantic we used to make our own weight with wood. We poured the lead into holes in the wood and then added small nails to create the holes that we could thread the line through. I bit primitive but effective. We didn't have moulds at the time. The fishing was the best I've ever experienced.

 

On the other hand I work in a garage and toss all of the lead we take from balancing tyres (tires?) I've got quite a bit still if you want them.

[Chris Goddard]

On Ascension Island in the S. Atlantic we used to make our own weight with wood. We poured the lead into holes in the wood and then added small nails to create the holes that we could thread the line through. I bit primitive but effective. We didn't have moulds at the time. The fishing was the best I've ever experienced.

 

Ascension Islands?! Trigger fish, tuna, sharks!! and of course MORAY EELS!! Great place and fanbloodytastic fishing!! Only there for a short break going to/from the Falklands but what a place!!

Brung back some memories has that!!

 

Chris

[Jeff S]

It was an amazing place. With water so clear that you could see forever underneath. I was there long enough to see the turtles labor up onto the beach, sling sand to dig their holes and then watch as the little ones made the break for the water a few months later. Catching shark and tuna from the rocks and the trigger fish were like piranas when you threw anything with meat still attached. Hiking up Green mountain. Did you sign the book Chris? Coconut rum that would knock your socks off. Spent most of my time spearfishing grouper and keeping an eye out for the morays. 6-8 feet long and SCARY . I lost more than one grouper to them.

 

Brilliant place Chris

 

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