Yes, however, it's a slow death and you go insane first. Since you drive and work on antique [by modern standards] Mercedes, no one will notice. ;))
Work in a ventilated area, use a clay dam to keep the lead from pouring through, and only heat the lead pot to the liquid lead pour point, preheat the joint to get better contact adheasion. You should be good to go. I've been melting and recasting wheel weight lead for the last 35 years and making lead shot for skeet shooting reloads, and lead bullets. Likely have handled several tons over the years. No ill effects to date. I do however resist the urge to ever lick lead bars or breath the fumes. To date, I can report I've been healthy. I doubt you can ingest enough lead in a single use event to cause a medical issue.. unless, of course, you live in California, where every substance touched by man has some ill effect. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 4:49 AM, LarryT via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Ya'll probably know this but when working with lead - melting it, etc - be > very careful of the fumes - they are toxic and can cause liver and other > damage... > > LarryT > 91 300D > > On 6/5/2015 11:32 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > >> JB Weld was my thought as well - but use it instead of the lead, not to >> seal the end before pouring lead. >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Dimitri via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> Jb weld? >>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
