How old of house? Some had lead pipes but would have to be pretty old. The flashing on the roof around vent pipes used to be lead. Some houses also had lead counter weights in the windows to help keep them open.
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On really old houses lead was used for roof flashing, used to seal the valley's where one flat area meets another.Critter Getter said:
Also lead sheets are used to seal around drain uprights and chimneys where they meet the roof and edging where the roof meets the eves.
More modern roofs use galvanized steel in these locations.
The joint where sewer drains meet is another place lead was used to seal the joint.
Look for locations on cast iron pipes, where the "out" pipe turns and dumps into the main sewer pipe.
At these locations, the lead was melted and poured into the joint to form a solid ring.
Clay pipes or the more modern pipe materials do not use lead as a joint seal because the molten lead would break the clay or melt the composite pipes.
Some very, very old houses and barns used lead pipes in their water delivery system to faucets but galvanized steel is much more common.
Lead supply pipes are almost never found in houses built after 1920.
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Thanks Moonman and Zoni! My Greatgrandfathers house was built in 1927 I believe. He built it himself. The other old two story farmhouse I just don't know for sure when it was built. Thanks again. Greg 
Some very, very old houses and barns used lead pipes in their water delivery system to faucets but galvanized steel is much more common.
Lead supply pipes are almost never found in houses built after 1920.
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My folks had a home built pre 1900 (first listed on tax lists in 1900). I helped with alot of plumbing and re-roofed. No lead :shake:
I have alot of roofer buddies and will be asking for some soon though....seems the best place to get some "older" pure lead for free :idunno:
Lead supply pipes are almost never found in houses built after 1920.
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My folks had a home built pre 1900 (first listed on tax lists in 1900). I helped with alot of plumbing and re-roofed. No lead :shake:
I have alot of roofer buddies and will be asking for some soon though....seems the best place to get some "older" pure lead for free :idunno:
Roofers usually come across lead quite frequently. About 20 years ago I was living in a 4 plex and they were reroofing. They threw the lead away in a dumpster and I dug out about 150 # of lead.
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hawkeye2 said:
There is a method for measuring the Brinell hardness of a piece of lead. It requires only two things, a piece of known pure lead and a steel ball bearing. You put the ball bearing in between the piece of pure lead and the piece of unknown lead. You put this sandwich in a vice and mash them together enough to cause the ball bearing to leave a good dent in both pieces of lead. Take them out of the vice and measure the diameter of the dent in the pure lead and the diameter of the dent in the unknown lead. You square each of these numbers and divide the square of the pure lead dent size by the square of the unknown lead dent size. You multiply this number by 5 to get the Brinell hardness of your unknown lead.
[(diameter of soft lead dent)*2/(diameter of unknown lead dent)*2] X5 = Brinell hardness of unknown lead.
The number 5 is the Brinell hardness of pure lead.
Easy Peasy!!
This previously published method was sent to me by one of our members who goes by the name of M.D. on this forum.
To answer your question? maybe !!!! Free is a great price and if it is soft enough to leave a thumb scratch,,shoot it.
I am pouring some up with lead and then I will shoot it into an object,,say a phone book dry/wet and see what happens,not sure of the ratio nor where I got it.
I'am not positive, as I have never tried this,but I want to shoot a deer sized target/animal with a 1/2 inch/50 cal Ball Bearing,and see if it runs away, never to be found or if the 1/2" hole through both lungs and the heart was enough to stop it with minimum expansion of the bearing.Should be a real bone crusher as well.
It isn't and should not be Rocket Surgery.
See you up the trail..
I am pouring some up with lead and then I will shoot it into an object,,say a phone book dry/wet and see what happens,not sure of the ratio nor where I got it.
I'am not positive, as I have never tried this,but I want to shoot a deer sized target/animal with a 1/2 inch/50 cal Ball Bearing,and see if it runs away, never to be found or if the 1/2" hole through both lungs and the heart was enough to stop it with minimum expansion of the bearing.Should be a real bone crusher as well.
It isn't and should not be Rocket Surgery.
See you up the trail..
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RoundBall did this with a brass ball if I'm not mistaken. Worked rather well.
Flint MI is supposed to replace all the lead pipes they have in the municipal water system do to using untreated water that let the lead contaminate them.
Anyone near there needs to become a lead disposal contractor.
Anyone near there needs to become a lead disposal contractor.
