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Harry O
06-28-2017, 06:43 PM
I just had my teeth checked and cleaned. While there, I picked up my last batch of x-ray lead foil from the Dentists x-rays. I have been getting about 25-30 lbs a year from him. He is going to digital film.

The stuff is about Bhn 10-11, very much like my wheelweights. However, it casts much nicer than wheelweights does. I don't have to add any tin to it like I do wheelweights. Such is the price of progress.
00buck
06-28-2017, 07:08 PM
All good things come to an end :(

Remember when wheel weights were free?
Tripplebeards
06-28-2017, 07:39 PM
All good things come to an end :(

Remember when wheel weights were free?

They still are
JWT
06-28-2017, 10:13 PM
All good things come to an end :(

Remember when wheel weights were free?

I just picked up half a bucket of free wheelweights with the purchase of $450 of tires and alignment work.
lightman
06-28-2017, 10:16 PM
Yup, thats progress! Were your teeth ok?
ikarus1
06-28-2017, 10:29 PM
The X ray foil backers that I got from my dentist were much softer than COWW. More like SOWWs at 7-8 BHN
Jack Stanley
06-30-2017, 07:22 PM
I feel your pain , my dentist switched a long time ago .

Jack
mac1911
07-01-2017, 11:59 PM
my dentist has to log his lead removal for insurance reasons. He showed me the form and the letter he gets from a lead reclamation company. They don't charge him all that much to take the lead away but for what ever reason he needs to document his lead disposal.
ghh3rd
07-02-2017, 12:38 PM
Sounds like something California would require.
Walter Laich
07-04-2017, 02:18 PM
I'm another that lost out when dentist went to magic x-rays or whatever

Pretty much just buy lead from vendors here. at 71 concentrating on the 'fun' parts of the hobby now
Hammerlane
07-08-2017, 03:12 PM
my DR. Has the same thing But So long as I have to come by he has yet to have to send it in. LOL All the paperwork and box is there it just never gets full enough to send.
Harry O
07-08-2017, 06:17 PM
The teeth were OK, considering their age. I don't know what is in the lead they use, but it is certainly good stuff for casting. I think it may be lead and tin. It casts like that. I mix it 50/50 with my WW. That is not to make the mix harder or softer. They are about the same hardness. It is to make the WW cast better. I am going to miss it.