Melting lead /casting bullets or balls

To all those out there that melt lead and cast their own bullets or round balls for muzzle loaders ;
I PRINTED THE BELOW INFO FROM ANOTHER SITE'

"Humans have been mining and using this heavy metal for thousands of years, poisoning themselves in the process. Although lead poisoning is one of the oldest known work and environmental hazards, the modern understanding of the small amount of lead necessary to cause harm did not come about until the latter half of the 20th century.

NO SAFE THRESHOLD FOR LEAD EXPOSURE HAS BEEN DISCVERED—that is, there is no known sufficiently small amount of lead that will not cause harm to the body. "

Please do yourselves a favour and go too "google " and just type in " lead fumes /poisoning there is some much valuable information there that will affect your health and prevent possible death to yourselves and family.

Please read .

Roger got all that. The funny part is in the 80's and 90's while employed as Telecom Lineman for the Army we removed, repaired and cooked lead in Manholes at work. I am, and 30 others are part of lead study conducted on us for the last 22 years. I do have high levels of heavy metals in my body, so do most of my fellow lineman. We used do what is called pot wiping of finished lead sleeves, splice joint connections, and general repairs. The process involved melting lead in pot while in the manhole, then wiping with heavy gloves the poured around sleeves to pretty joints. I used to chew on lead strips while splicing, but then again I used to lead pellets in mouth when hunting with pellet guns. Back then there was no confined space entry procedures or lead policy for DND, hell we used have open flames in manholes, using nitrogen and argon gas for "welding" lead. Propane for lead melting pots..different time, then today's standard which requires the lineman to have regular blood test, gown, respirator and gloves when working with lead. When melting lead, do it in the garage and have a fan blowing over the pot down the bench. Something is gonna get you the end anyways

Casting outside during the summer would be your best bet, but one time exposure is not what makes you crazy, it is lead over time that has a major impact.

I can only imagine my fight with Veterans Affairs in the end...not gonna be easy with then deny the first two times you apply and then the appeals process to get what rightful compensation is deserved. If my death is premature in life and caused by (leading, heavy metals) cancer, the only benefit I can gain from is the survivor benefits to my spouse at death.

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Originally Posted by line052

I can only imagine my fight with Veterans Affairs in the end...not gonna be easy with then deny the first two times you apply and then the appeals process to get what rightful compensation is deserved. If my death is premature in life and caused by (leading, heavy metals) cancer, the only benefit I can gain from is the survivor benefits to my spouse at death.

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That would be a tough fight for sure, it would also be made a lot tougher by the symptoms of excessive lead exposure. People literally go crazy from lead poisoning, that could be blamed on any number of things.

Jesh don't show my wife that statment..she will have a new reason to harp on me...lol

If you were to use a respirator, what class respirator would be required? Lead is a lethal metal. Thousands of deer die from it every year.

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I think I should be safe as I don't ingest lead the same way as deer...lol Wife doesn't know where the keys are.

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Originally Posted by huntaway

If you were to use a respirator, what class respirator would be required? Lead is a lethal metal. Thousands of deer die from it every year.

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lol good thing. :-)

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