Casting Pure Lead Ingots

So where can you find raw pure lead today? RotoMetals handles it, of course for cost. But turns out dentists used to have lead foil in their x-ray films years ago. Some dentists saved their x-ray lead. So this dentist named Bob retired and moved to Tennessee. Before he left, he was clearing his house and wanted to know if I wanted the lead foil he had in his garage. Having gotten pure lead x-ray foil from him in the past, he thought about me taking it off his hands. After a brief moment of thinking about it…I said yes… But the next step is casting it into ingots…

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