Notre Dame Cathedral

[fingers284]

No wonder lead is getting expensive commercially...The French just competed a 3 yr roof repair after the fire, 43000 sq ft, one full acre, of lead sheeting was used.
Not sure what that would weigh but I had a roll of roofing lead given to me that was aprox 24 inches wide & 20 ft long and I got about 200 lbs of ingots out of it.

 

[10x]

Lead roof sheeting? No worries about that lead getting into the water supply there.

 

[fingers284]

Just did some quick math using the the sheet I had, that roof lead would be around 450,000 lbs total and we could make over 46,000 slugs for 45-70.

 

[Snider shooter]

Just did some quick math using the the sheet I had, that roof lead would be around 450,000 lbs total and we could make over 46,000 slugs for 45-70.

I think your math is off. 14 bullets in a pound at 500 grs. A lot more.

 

[boxhitch]

1 lb = 7k grains, no?

 

[franktank]

Let’s go melt that roof and find out.

 

[apexanimal]

Just did some quick math using the the sheet I had, that roof lead would be around 450,000 lbs total and we could make over 46,000 slugs for 45-70.

Maybe if your slugs are around 10 pounds each

 

[Light Infantry]

A 500 gr slug would net you 6.3 million bullets

 

[legi0n]

I have read long ago that the Romanian monastery "Plumbuita" (meaning leaded) had lead shingles on the roof.
In the 1600s that lead was cast into projectiles to repeal some attackers.

 

[smellofspentcasings]

I was on a cruise and we were one of the last groups to go through Notre Dame the day it burned down. I remember commenting how lax their security was .

 

[Majestro]

Just did some quick math using the the sheet I had, that roof lead would be around 450,000 lbs total and we could make over 46,000 slugs for 45-70.

450,000 x 7000 / 405 = 7,777,777.778 bullets at 405 grains each

 

[10x]

On a visit to Quebec i would look at the roof of a cathedral and wonder when I could replace it with aluminium or steel....