You forgot a step... 4A) Call 911 and wait for the paramedics, since the lead you tried to pour into the tube hit the water instead and exploded all over you, your garage and the dog, severely burning everything.
NEVER get molten lead near water. NEVER EVER!! Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "yclui_hk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Eraser Ballast No, the lathe just makes the job easier if you want to make ballast in significant quantity. Here is a simpler way to make slugs : 1) Getting a metal tube of outer diameter that fits the ballast tube. 2) Epoxy a metal plate to one end to seal it off. Make sure that it¡¦s a tight seal. 3) Submerge the tube into water with the open end pointing upward and above the water. 4) Pour lead into the tube. 5) After it has cooled off, saw the lead-filled tube into segments of appropriate length. There are many alternatives. If you don¡¦t like sawing and filing metal, a neater way is to first cut the metal tube into segments with a tube cutter, glue all the segments onto a big metal plate and fill them up with lead one by one. Use as little epoxy as possible so that you can break the slugs off the metal plate easily. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
