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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 06-16-2016
no reason to stock up on pig fat as they haven't classified it as hazardous to human health yet.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 06-16-2016
(06-16-2016, 08:34 AM)dallen Wrote: no reason to stock up on pig fat as they haven't classified it as hazardous to human health yet.
Try telling that to my cardiologist....
Darren, no need for more pig fat. I'm carrying around enough of that already.
Lead on the other hand has been in short supply around here for a long time now. They closed the last remaining lead smelter in the US (here in Missouri) at the end of 2013. Glad I saved all the old style wheel weights when I did. Funny thing is I grew up in a house with lead paint on the trim, had lead drain pipes, copper plumbing that was soldered with lead, handled lead wheel weights with my bare hands just about every day in my job, soldered radiators & misc wiring, hand cast / loaded and shot thousands of lead bullets and lead shot, made lead hammers etc.
And now they tell people it's going to kill them if they even LOOK at a piece of lead???
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - awemawson - 06-16-2016
Yes it seems everything we were surrounded by in our childhood is toxic to the current generation !
I had to pull out of a house purchase a few years back as the local authority had decided that, as it had previously had a coal yard on some of it's land, the top soil had to be removed and dumped as hazardous waste - estimated cost £100,000 ! Now when I was starting school, we had to walk round (and often over!) the spoil heap from a coal mine. We had coal fires in several of the rooms at home, and a store of it in the garden. We'd carve coal, and crack it looking for leaf shapes in the strata.
I can only think that we were tougher in those days !
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 06-16-2016
My current home (1930's) originally had a coal furnace for heating. The furnace and the coal storage bin in the basement are long gone, but it still has the original access door that coal delivery man would shovel it into from the driveway.
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 06-16-2016
Just about everything in my home is coal powered- stove, hot water, lighting- in fact the machines in my shed are coal powered too. The coal is burned about 80km from where I sit and used to power steam turbine-driven generators. Don't know what we'll do if they ban that.
I remember using red lead and white led for setting up diff gears way back when. Funny saying that plumbing had lead in it- plumbium is latin for lead.
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 06-16-2016
Pete, how ungreen is that, coal powered stove, hot etc. Here they're trying to push electric cars to be green or hydrogen powered vehicles. Don't think they realize the electricity has to be generated from heat and where does that heat come from? Oh yah don't even think about nuclear plants,
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 06-16-2016
(06-16-2016, 10:42 AM)Highpower Wrote: ...Funny thing is I grew up in a house with lead paint on the trim, had lead drain pipes, copper plumbing that was soldered with lead, handled lead wheel weights with my bare hands just about every day in my job, soldered radiators & misc wiring, hand cast / loaded and shot thousands of lead bullets and lead shot, made lead hammers etc...
Ahh - I'm beginning to understand now Willie
(06-16-2016, 04:57 PM)Pete O Wrote: ...plumbium is latin for lead.
Which is why the chemical symbol for lead is Pb
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 06-16-2016
(06-16-2016, 07:42 PM)Mayhem Wrote:(06-16-2016, 10:42 AM)Highpower Wrote: ...Funny thing is I grew up in a house with lead paint on the trim, had lead drain pipes, copper plumbing that was soldered with lead, handled lead wheel weights with my bare hands just about every day in my job, soldered radiators & misc wiring, hand cast / loaded and shot thousands of lead bullets and lead shot, made lead hammers etc...
Ahh - I'm beginning to understand now Willie
Wait..... What???
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Roadracer_Al - 06-17-2016
Zing!
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - JScott - 06-17-2016
Need some ice for that burn!
