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Do you use just straight lead? The salvage yard here last time i went had about 1,000 lbs of old wheel weights melted down into 100 lb blocks. He was buying scap lead for about 10 cents a pound. no market for scrap lead so you can pick up old wheel weights cheap or free. Or can that not be used?

Originally Posted by chevydrivin

Do you use just straight lead? The salvage yard here last time i went had about 1,000 lbs of old wheel weights melted down into 100 lb blocks. He was buying scap lead for about 10 cents a pound. no market for scrap lead so you can pick up old wheel weights cheap or free. Or can that not be used?

You have to use lead with a much higher grade of purity then junk yard lead. As far as melting it and skimming it off the top, go ahead. The average bill for cancer treatment runs about $130,000.00, keep your insurance paid up it should cover about $40,000.00 worth of the treatment and you would only have to kick in $90,000.00 out of pocket. Make sure no one sees you doing it. I would imagine the EPA, the local cops, and a bunch of others will do their best to lock you up and throw away the key. The stuff is DANGEROUS and is not as good a filler as the new body fillers...... The "no bondo, lead only" hype is nothing but hype...... Ever watched anyone die from lead poisioning or cancer????

There is only one reason to use lead.............so you can brag to your buddies that your car was done that way. Otherwise, modern lightweight fillers have surpassed this old school way of doing things in almost every respect.

I know you see guys like Bill Hines doing it on Monster Garage and it seems so traditional, and all. But with the health related issues and difficulty in working it, there is no real valid reason in 2006 to use the stuff.

When my Kid chopped the top in his '29 Fordor, there was a lot of lead he had to cut through, and he didn't feel really good for a couple of months after, and he wondered about the dust he may have come in contact with.


Don