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Digger
03-15-2022, 05:23 PM
Wonder how many pounds of lead this has ...
Restoration work in the Notre Dame cathedral .
link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10615635/Ancient-sarcophagus-Notre-Dame-cathedral-Paris.html

Winger Ed.
03-15-2022, 06:14 PM
You'd think as diligent as the Vatican has always been about keeping church records,
they can figure out who is in it.

I read somewhere that when it burned, several tons of Lead melted out of the roof coverings.

TyGuy
03-15-2022, 06:20 PM
Edit* jumped the gun…

farmbif
03-15-2022, 06:37 PM
300 tons of lead in the roof

Mal Paso
03-15-2022, 08:36 PM
300 tons of lead in the roof

Health Hazard! As lead experts We could help them eliminate the problem.

Martin Luber
03-15-2022, 09:13 PM
Could hold back the plague, oh wait, nevermind

farmbif
03-15-2022, 09:15 PM
here's where I got 300 tons from. wonder how much was in stained glass windows?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10004271/Notre-Dame-finally-declared-stable-repairs-begin.html

kevin c
03-16-2022, 03:17 AM
That yellow color in the smoke as the cathedral roof burned: I think at least one form of lead oxide is that color. I wonder, then, how much of the lead roof literally went up in smoke.

brass410
03-16-2022, 08:20 AM
300 tons of lead in the roof

gonna need extra ingot moulds for this and a bigger dipper

lightman
03-18-2022, 02:01 PM
If I had any of the lead from the roof I would cast it into a nice ingot and keep it for show and tell.

dverna
03-18-2022, 05:00 PM
If I had any of the lead from the roof I would cast it into a nice ingot and keep it for show and tell.

Or make little medallions and sell them for $20 each. If they weighed 2 oz each you would get $160/lb. $96 million.

Eddie Southgate
03-18-2022, 06:06 PM
If I had any of the lead from the roof I would cast it into a nice ingot and keep it for show and tell.

I'd cast it into bullets , show them to a burglar and tell him to git gone .

Mal Paso
03-18-2022, 07:19 PM
As many times it's been blessed it's likely the most accurate lead in the world.

Omega
03-18-2022, 07:27 PM
Heck no, I would make sure the seal was still good and encase it in more layers. How evil do you need to be to be buried in a lead coffin? :bigsmyl2:

varmintpopper
03-19-2022, 02:36 AM
My wife inherited a Large house in Austria, replacing the 240 year old roof composed of lead sheets underlying Red Tile turned out to be quite expensive. Of course the old lead was salvaged. hopefully some of the lead was made into Boolits.

Good Shooting

Lindy

Travisbishop
03-19-2022, 04:48 AM
Melt every last bit of it for boolits. Spare not a single ounce. Lead is EXPENSIVE now. I'm glad I stock piled over the decades. Back in the 70's and 80's, I traded scrap iron for lead at the local scrap yards. During the 90's into the early parts of 2000, I picked up barrels of linotype from newspapers and printshops when they started changing over. They were basically giving it away just to get it out of their way. I bought buckets of wheel weight from the tire shops back then. Now days, they use zinc or some such nonsense.

alamogunr
03-19-2022, 10:46 AM
I've got enough WW to last me for the rest of my life. I remember watching the news clips of the cathedral burning. Sort of an emotional experience watching something that you have seen in person as a famous landmark(?) go up in flames. I hope when the reconstruction is over it looks the same as before the fire.

10x
03-20-2022, 08:35 AM
300 tons of lead in the roof

When I visited Quebec l would look longingly at the lead rooves of churches.

lightman
03-20-2022, 01:50 PM
When I visited Quebec l would look longingly at the lead rooves of churches.

This is pretty common in older cities. A few years ago we vacationed in Charleston and took one of those carriage rides. Lots of older buildings had lead on the roofs.

Bigslug
03-20-2022, 02:23 PM
As many times it's been blessed it's likely the most accurate lead in the world.

And would you still need holy water or silver for vampires and werewolves?

Bigslug
03-20-2022, 02:24 PM
Heck no, I would make sure the seal was still good and encase it in more layers. How evil do you need to be to be buried in a lead coffin? :bigsmyl2:

Are they sure it's not just a spam can full of 7.62x54R?

flyingmonkey35
03-20-2022, 02:30 PM
I suppose any bullet cast out of that would be a awesome vampire bullet.


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Murphy
03-20-2022, 03:12 PM
Or make little medallions and sell them for $20 each. If they weighed 2 oz each you would get $160/lb. $96 million.

Don,

I have to give it to you my friend. When it comes to money, you're good!

Murphy