the dangers of lead

[Loyalist Dave]

Actually she is sorta right (remember I said all wives' tales have a basis in fact)..., but you have to be using a police radar gun from the 1990's and you have to leave it in the "on" position, AND you have to put it muzzle down on your crotch while sitting in your police car running a speed trap..., and you need to do this for about twenty days in a month, to do any damage.

Several traffic officers where I work got partial disability for doing that to themselves. :shocked2:



LD

 

[nit wit]

I have been handling lead balls since 1972 with no ill efects.
I have been handling lead balls since
I have been
What was I talking about? :rotf:
Nit Wit

 

[TFoley]

I'm curious as to how the "expert" avoids the lead danger when he shoots. (Assuming he actually shoots MLs.) I despise people offering profound, ex cathedra, statements about things they've overheard.

There should be plenty of information online to allay her fears. Good luck!

Jeff

PS: According to this guy, many of us on this forum should be dead or dying. Somehow, we're doing fine.

Jeff, I revisited this thread to see what had gone onto it since I posted my response back then, and re-noticed your comment using the term 'ex cathedra' and had to laff.

A letter in our local freebie newspaper last week used something like it - but got it wrong - 'making ex catheter pronounciations without any basis in the facts...' :rotf:

tac

 

[TFoley]

You sure that lead tip is not really graphite?

Not sure, what did they make pencils out of in the 1970s? :idunno:

Same as they have done for a over 450 years, and still do.

Graphite.

The Romans, and others who came after them, DID use lead, and latterly very thin rods made of silver.

See - The "lead" pencil (which contains no lead) was invented in 1564 when a huge graphite (black carbon) mine was discovered in Borrowdale, Cumbria, England. The pure graphite was sawn into sheets and then cut into square rods. The graphite rods were inserted into hand-carved wooden holders, forming pencils. They were called lead pencils by mistake - at the time, the newly-discovered graphite was called black lead or "plumbago," from the Latin word for lead ore - it looked and acted like lead, and it was not known at the time that graphite consisted of carbon and not lead. The English had a monopoly on the production of pencils since no other pure graphite mines were known and no one had yet found a way to make graphite sticks.
The Germans manufactured graphite sticks (made from powdered graphite), but they were impractical. In 1795, the Nicholas Jacques Conte (a French officer in Napoleon's army) patented the modern method of kiln-firing powdered graphite with clay to make graphite rods for pencils. By varying the ratio of graphite to clay, the hardness of the graphite can also vary.

Before the mid-1500s, "pencils" consisted of a thin rod composed of soft lead, and were used mostly by artists. The word pencil comes from the Latin word "penicillus," which means "little tail" - the name of the tiny brush that ancient Romans used as a writing instrument. Graphite (named for the Greek word meaning "to write") was chemically analyzed in 1779 (by K.W. Scheele) and named in 1789 (by A.G. Werner).

tac

 

[jdkerstetter]

Several traffic officers where I work got partial disability for doing that to themselves.

....and likely their union saw to it they are drawing big dissability checks on your dime Dave! After all they weren't informed that doing this would result in injury. :shake:

Enjoy, J.D.

 

[Robert Egler]

Jeff, I revisited this thread to see what had gone onto it since I posted my response back then, and re-noticed your comment using the term 'ex cathedra' and had to laff.

A letter in our local freebie newspaper last week used something like it - but got it wrong - 'making ex catheter pronounciations without any basis in the facts...' :rotf:

tac

People using Latin phrases without actually knowing any Latin can make some very interesting mistakes. :grin: Or it may have been a spell check "correction" was wasn't caught and changed back.

 

[jamesthomas]

Now I know that we are all lead daim bramaged from making ingots,conicals,an Rbs. This thread has gone to the dangers of Lead to the definition of Graphite, to how they made pencils, to Latin words goofed up by spell check! :surrender: :rotf: :rotf: :stir: .

 

[bpd303]

Now all that is needed is to wander off about how patch lube affects the danger of lead...

 

[cynthialee]

Now I know that we are all lead daim bramaged from making ingots,conicals,an Rbs. This thread has gone to the dangers of Lead to the definition of Graphite, to how they made pencils, to Latin words goofed up by spell check! :surrender: :rotf: :rotf: :stir: .

true, but I got an education on pencils along the way and that is rather spiffy

 

[M. De Land]

Did you know you can get lead poisoning by knapping flint with a lead pencil while reciting Latin with a radar gun in the on position laying in your lap while seated in a squad car? :rotf: Mike D.

 

[stone knife]

Ben Lee use to make his turkey calls out of lead. I heard him say it years ago on a turkey calling cassette tape.

 

[trent/OH]

Jeff, I revisited this thread to see what had gone onto it since I posted my response back then, and re-noticed your comment using the term 'ex cathedra' and had to laff.

A letter in our local freebie newspaper last week used something like it - but got it wrong - 'making ex catheter pronounciations without any basis in the facts...' :rotf:

tac

People using Latin phrases without actually knowing any Latin can make some very interesting mistakes. :grin: Or it may have been a spell check "correction" was wasn't caught and changed back.

I recently heard a radio ad for the dog food "Dinovite", which I believe translates roughly as "terrible life". Why would I give something like that to my dogs?

 

[ZUG]

Did you know you can get lead poisoning by knapping flint with a lead pencil while reciting Latin with a radar gun in the on position laying in your lap while seated in a squad car? :rotf: Mike D.

Now that's FUNNY --- "Car 54 Were Are You?" :rotf: :rotf: