Dental X-ray Foil

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HI,
My daughter in law just brought me a 2'x2'x2' box of dental x-ray film backing foil. I melted it down yesterday got about 15 lbs. anyone here ever used this stuff? I am gussing it is pure Pb , but don"t really know.

[versifier]

See my post in the Diving Belt Weights thread.

[nighthunter]

I have used the dental film lead also. The dentist told me it was pure lead and seems like pure lead. I'd treat it as that.

[fecmech]

I got about 40lbs of it from my dentist a year or so ago. I rendered it into ingots and I'm not sure if it is straight lead. The ingots from the dental lead had a slight ring to them when dropped on concrete as opposed to the dull thud of roofing lead ingots. A friend with a muzzle loader swapped me some lino for it so I never cast anything with it. I was pretty soft and probably very close to straight lead. My dentist was pretty surprised when I told him he'd done 26,000 xrays! I weighed a couple foils and divided into the 43lb total. Nick

[1Shirt]

Treat as pure lead. Have melted down well over 150 lbs. of the stuff, and the only problem is the little papers that tend to stink when they burn.
1Shirt

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HI,
Thanks for the feedback, I think they stink worse than ww too.
I'll treat them as lead.