| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Treacodactyl |
LeadI have a fair bit of old lead piping after renovating our house. Now I could take it to our local tip and hand it over but I wonder if there's anything else I could use it for. It know some people make their own bullets but I'm not sure I'd ever get round to that. I could use it for lead weights for sea fishing if it's still legal although I'm not sure I need 30m or more. Any other ideas?I also wonder if you can get cash for it these days when you recycle it, after all leads quite expensive. I also have a couple of old lead/acid batteries, I suppose hoping for a few pence for these would be too much? Do any charities collect them? |
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| Rob R |
Lead's a high price at the moment- take it to any scrap yard & they should pay good money. There's been quite a few churches & houses loosing their lead recently due to thieves.
Edit: £900/tonne for lead, £100/tonne for lead batteries |
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| sean |
Divers used to make their own weights quite a lot. Have you got a local BSAC/PADI place? | ||||
| Pilsbury |
My dad used to melt it down and make door stops, he used to pour it into the top of bricks, in the V shaped bit at the top, im sure he used to prepare them nisome way but i dont know how, but the in joke at my nans was to ask how the frogs were cos the valley in the top of a brick is called a frog apparently 
I also have a rabbit one he made out of a jellly mould, when my nan died its was the thing i wanted most as it reminds me of nan and my dad 
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| boisdevie1 |
I'd take it down to the local scrap metal merchant. | ||||
| dpack |
scrappers | ||||
| Treacodactyl |
Thanks for the ideas, keep them coming. I think I'll keep the lead pipe as I'm sure I'll find uses for it.
I only have two but it would seem like something a charity might do although collecting a tonne of batteries might not be worth it. I can't find anything on google so I might just take them down the local tip for them to recycle, I assume this means the council must get a fair bit of money from their tips? |
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| Nick |
So, we know it was TD.
We know it was the lead pipe. We just need to work out if it was the drawing room, or the Library... |
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| dpack |
most recycled uk batteries end up at enthoven near matlock (much cleaner than in the 1970s )
iirc the bloke who owns it is anti hunting so wont sell recycled lead to shot makers but he will sell to bullet makers for military spec rounds 
ps the heap of cadmium contaminated feldspar gravel opposite the works is nothing to do with enthoven national parks are nice  
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| JB |
But it's OK the roman army will put a stop to that http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2176967.ece |
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| Northern_Lad |
How very true - we haven't seen Bugs for a while, and last time I was there it was perculiarly tidy, with a new wall in the living room....
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| Treacodactyl |
I've built another wall, taken up some floor boards and dug a long trench out the back since then. However, Bugs was seen in public last weekend. I've always fancied stabbing Miss Scarlett in the Library, but that's another story altogether... |
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| Nick |
What the hell kind of euphemism is the Library? | ||||
| Treacodactyl |
How about whipping my pistol out at Miss Scarlett in the dining room? | ||||
| mochyn |
Nick: has no-one told you? YOU'RE OBSSESSED! And, as I once said to the old chap: "It's only a game." |
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| Rob R |
OK, 10p/kg then
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