Lead question.

[oldgeezershooter]

I have a chance to git some lead from a friend, she used to make stained glass, is this pure lead or what. Its in thin strips about six feet long.

[imashooter2]

Stained glass came is close enough to pure to be used as such for our purposes.

[oldgeezershooter]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[lwknight]

The one time that I saw stain glass work going on they used solder. Just tossing that out as a possibility.

[imashooter2]

Yeah, but the solder would be round wire on rolls, not thin strips 6 feet long...

[slim1836]

You would need to cut out the soldered joints and melt seperatly in order to maintain the softness.

Slim

[darkroommike]

The strips will be soft lead, come in H-channel and U-channel--I think they call it "came". If she has solder, it is most likely 50/50.

[btroj]

I would ignore the joints- the amount of solder isn't very big. I could easily picture a large window that contains over 10 pounds of lead came yet uses less than 1/4 pound of solder. While I am no expert I have done enough stained glass work to have a decent idea what is going on.

[oldgeezershooter]

This is all new stuff in boxes, she said she used to put it in a vise and stretch it. So sounds pretty soft.

[imashooter2]

That's definitely the came then. Call it pure.