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Malckom
02-19-2009, 10:11 PM
Has any one used lead from diving belts?

deltaenterprizes
02-19-2009, 10:22 PM
Yup, sometimes they are soft lead,some times wheel weight metal, I had some made from linotype!

docone31
02-19-2009, 10:37 PM
When I made my weights, I used anything I could get my hands on. Same when I worked casting Bluefish Drails. It all went into the pot.
Mystery metal.

snaggdit
02-19-2009, 11:25 PM
I just picked up some tubes of lead the guy said came from ankle weights. They tested 7.8bhn. I smelted them with stickons and called them pure, for all practical purposes. I haven't got so addicted that I am willing to melt my dive weights yet. I still use them!

Gunslinger
02-20-2009, 05:40 AM
I haven't got so addicted that I am willing to melt my dive weights yet. I still use them!

Ohh you'll get there... all you need is time dude :-D

qajaq59
02-20-2009, 05:51 AM
Mine were lino because I was a printer in those days. But they're becoming bullets now. After a while you're too old to dive, but not too old to shoot.

DLCTEX
02-20-2009, 10:51 AM
My son just moved home from Florida and gave me his dive weights. He did advise me not to go swimming with all of them unless in salt water and with a wet suit. No problem here! I will keep them in reserve in case I ever run out of lead.

Tom Herman
02-20-2009, 11:06 AM
When I made my weights, I used anything I could get my hands on. Same when I worked casting Bluefish Drails. It all went into the pot.
Mystery metal.

Diving belt material is likle boat ballast and other unidentified scrap lead: it can be anything!

Happy Shootin'! -Tom