I got about 100 lbs of lead from a dentist office a while back. It's from the little x-ray boards you have to hold in your mouth to get your teeth x-rayed. There are thousands of these in the three boxes I got. Someone took a while to pull all of them apart. I wanted to consolidate it into ingots for easier storage. I've poured lead before, but it was into cola cans to make weights to use around the house. While at the scrap yard, I found some pans with nice deep Christmas muffin designs. They are just right for my Christmas cookie ingots. I got the pan, ladle, spoon and muffin tins at the yard for $1. I already had the fish cooker so we fired it up and started melting. It only took a little skimming as the thin sheet lead is pretty clean. After pouring and cooling, I weighed some of the ingots and they were all within 2 ounces of 3 lbs. I'm liking them and my wife has taken interest in a few. My kids wanted one each and their friends want some. I might be able to sell these things for more than scrap.
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