Good morning,
My workplace is about to undergo a major rebuilding project and a large part of my involvement will be the disassembly and rebuilding of perhaps 10,000 valves.
This will generate a large amount of used scrap valve packing. It appears to be a braided material that is impregnated with a soft slippery metal. It looks like lead, everyone calls it lead, so it must be lead right?
Has anyone messed with this stuff as a lead source? Did it work out well or was it a big pain in the backside for very little usable lead? And if it did work out how hard was the resulting alloy?
Thank you for your time.
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