X-ray lead sheets?

[Travtastik]

When I got home from work I found this sitting outside my reloading room.

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It's a 5 gallon bucket of X-ray lead sheets. They are extremely thin and light. She left me several pairs of latex gloves since these have been in people's mouths. Anything special I should know about these?

[dbosman]

Mash them down before putting them in the pot.

[Lloyd Smale]

takes a pile of them to get a lb of lead ;)

[sqlbullet]

Plan to flux a bunch and get lots of dross too.

[zomby woof]

What you have there is Dental X-ray packet lead shield. They are mostly made by Kodak, now Carestream. I worked there for over 17 years. It's >96%lead, 1.5% PB and 1.5% SB. Good stuff.

[BadDaditood]

Many years ago my dentist gave me some, i asked him what the alloy was and his supplier told him 98% lead, 2% Sb/Sn (antimony/tin)

I smelted a little in my garage, didn't see the little alligator clip still holding the film... Yikes!! what a stinky smoky mess that was. :veryconfu

Since then I do all my smelting outside.

[Travtastik]

Thanks for the info. I got about 30lbs of it so far. Hoping to put it to use soon.

[BadDaditood]

This thread got me casting today, i ran a few with 50/50 = SOWW and that 98/2 Xray. Fill out was superb- these are some of the purtiest boolits i've cast in a while.

Shiny!![smilie=w: