Thread: who sells lead body solder for bodywork????

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Yup, lead is all around us. But why compound the problem by breathing the vapors when you melt it????? The guy who taught me body work died from lead poisioning and lung cancer when I was about 25. Even counting 2 years in country, it was the most gruesome death I ever witnessed. I hope you never have to be the one with it, or the one watching. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.........

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Yup, lead is all around us. But why compound the problem by breathing the vapors when you melt it????? The guy who taught me body work died from lead poisioning and lung cancer when I was about 25. Even counting 2 years in country, it was the most gruesome death I ever witnessed. I hope you never have to be the one with it, or the one watching. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.........

use a carbon filter or a fume hood when melting?? probably would work, but I couldn't immagine trying to do any body work with those contraptions in your face, trying to do the work.

I use plastic filler now. I wanted lead because my friend told me a few years ago that bondo was bad and garbage, when I found out that plastic fillers were not bad, only bad when used in bad ways ( filling large holes, using along with fiberglass cloth/ mat to make patches ect... ) rather as a surface levaler, so now I'm comfterble working with bondo.