14lbs Lead Toilet Pipe (Holy S**t!)

[nw mb]

...the guys at my local plumbing shop drop me a few pounds of lead every so often ...usually soffits, flashings, etc ...they laughed me all the way to the door today ...'make sure you ways your hands!', they called ...i never knew such a thing even existed!

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(...i took this one for the team ...no chainsaw required! )

 

[223762]

thats going to be one smelly melting pot when you cook that down

 

[haretrigger]

Two good reasons not to lick your fingers or bite your nails right you've got there.

 

[Kevin M.]

Finger lickin' good?

 

[Seagull]

I bet it makes $h!ty boolits

 

[silen]

We just dug up an 8" lead sewer line with a 1/2 thick wall.... wern't allowed to take any ...hazmat was there :/ the stuff was ridiculously heavy per foot

 

[Oddjob70]

Damn...I see this stuff all the time in houses where I do bath renos...its always the 3" toilet line where is see it...theres usually 8"- 12" of it...guess I should stop throwing it in the garbage and clean it up for you guys

Houses here in Edmonton built in the 50s and 60s are sure to have some of it in the bathrooms and even up in the attic where the vent meets the roof line...Ive seen hundreds of pounds of this stuff in my day..never put two and two together until I joined CGN

 

[nowarningshot]

Only three things you need to know as a plumber....sh!t flows downhill, payday is friday, dont chew your fingernails.

 

[nw mb]

...and now we all know why people get colon cancer!

 

[norland]

check latin word for lead

 

[98ssuck]

Only three things you need to know as a plumber....sh!t flows downhill, payday is friday, dont chew your fingernails.

You forgot about the pipes not leaking.

 

[jongun]

Being in renos I run into this stuff on a regular basis. Gotta love free lead that comes prefluxed

 

[OneBarfly]

I have similar quantities received from a local Turd-herder

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Agreed!

 

[John Y Cannuck]

I live in a house that was built in 1865, so yes, when they installed the upstairs bathroom some years later it had a lead waste pipe. That pipe is already cast into alloyed 458 for the 45-70. It was common to use lead for waste pipe on sinks and toilets years ago. Plastic is way better for the purpose, and the lead, well, we have uses for that don't we?

 

[coltseries70]

Let's hope you don't end up with a bullet with a piece of corn in it.

 

[nw mb]

...so today while smelting wheel weights, i emptied the pot and melted this pipe...

...here's the result...

...about 13#/91,000 grains...or 364, 250 grain bullets...

...of SOFT lead