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Lazybones
Lazybones Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...to turn this into gold. What the heck do you do with something like this?


USAF (Ret) The purpose of Bourbon is to make you feel like you should feel WITHOUT Bourbon. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.

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  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    You can cast it into certain components for the sporting industry as I hear some of those components are very hard to come by lately.

    Steve

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  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    On the other hand you could apply nuclear transmutation however you would need a particle accelerator and you could only do it in extremely small batches, so with that hunk pictured it would take quite a while to accomplish.

    Steve

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Make lots of cast bullets.... Works well for reloading. Cheers, RickO

  • Lazybones
    Lazybones Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ricko said:
    Make lots of cast bullets.... Works well for reloading. Cheers, RickO

    I thought of that, Rick. But I'm too lazy these days to reload. Trimming cases is a PITA... :D

    USAF (Ret) The purpose of Bourbon is to make you feel like you should feel WITHOUT Bourbon. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.

  • jesbroken
    jesbroken Posts: 11,253 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Lazybones said:
    What the heck do you do with something like this?

    Saw it into 2, 3 and 4 pound diver's weights. Put it on ebay.
    Then again if you pay the freight, I would gladly accept it. :D
    Jim


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  • smalltime
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    Sell it to a catalytic converter thief saying it is 100 converters already melted down.

  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Me thinks that a historic lead medal design is bouncing around in the head of one @dcarr This ingot could be that diamond in the rough. Peace Roy

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  • Kurisu
    Kurisu Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Start a YouTube channel dropping it onto things.

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • Bruce7789
    Bruce7789 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭✭
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    Hey lazybones, you want to borrow my lead weight molds? Or cast it into downrigger weights. Then you could go fishing! Correction, if I loan you the molds, I'm going too!

  • Bruce7789
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    If you really want to have some fun with it, take a sledgehammer and beat it into a rough elongated potato shape. and then take a acetylene torch and melt the rough edges off and smooth it all over like it is water worn. Take some heavy gravel and create pockets on the surface .Go to Home Depot or Lowes, get the new epoxy gold spray and paint it with several layers of gold paint. Then get some white quartz, the bigger the better, and gently drive the pieces into it so they look like they are part of it.

    Then walk into your neighborhood coin store on a Saturday morning carrying it and say real loudly "Hey look what I found out in the desert, or up on the mountain, or in my back yard" or what ever and just watch the reactions!...Hilarious.

    Try not to laugh!

    And yes I did have a misspent youth, but I sure had a lot of fun!

  • WAYNEAS
    WAYNEAS Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    See what Lead is a pound and then take to the junkies.
    Wayne :)

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • Lazybones
    Lazybones Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @WAYNEAS said:
    See what Lead is a pound and then take to the junkies.
    Wayne :)

    It totals around $17 for the brick. Not enough to get me to carry it out of the basement to my truck. :D

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  • Bruce7789
    Bruce7789 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭✭
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    Actually, sell it to a plumber, depending on what area of the country you are in, because if they do restoration of historic buildings, we sometimes had to use lead and packing connections on cast iron pipes, depending on how anal the inspectors are. Stupid, but true!

  • Lazybones
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    @Bruce7789 Cast soil stack joints are packed with lead and oakum.

    USAF (Ret) The purpose of Bourbon is to make you feel like you should feel WITHOUT Bourbon. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.

  • Bruce7789
    Bruce7789 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭✭
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    Yep! That's what I said, but was having a senior moment and couldn't remember oakum! In some restorations, we could upgrade all the underground piping, and in others we couldn't. We did a lot of historic restoration projects on Military bases, and it seemed like the ROICC's on the Navy bases were the hardest to convince to upgrade out of sight plumbing.

  • Batman23
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    Looks a little light but they make great ballast for on the deck of the boat. I use to move four 50 pounders back and forth all the time. Captain did not like his boat listing to one side.

  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It would make some nice fishing sinkers.

  • jabba
    jabba Posts: 3,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Don’t lick it


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  • DoubleEagle59
    DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Doorstop.

    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
  • Kurisu
    Kurisu Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Spoon it into a sphere.
    Then drop it onto things.

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

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