DiscoRacing
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Hmmm....I missed that one appearantly..I do follow the don`t lick the bullets
....But I have cast and ate at the same time.
..I guess its another one of the ,,,could happen,,things that I dont worry about.
Hmmm....I missed that one appearantly..I do follow the don`t lick the bullets
Wow!!! In the early sixties until he died, he was arguably the most famous of the the gun writers. It does not matter if you believed everything he wrote; everybody who read gun magazines knew who he was. "...small amount of noteriety...", my arse.Also, don't take everything you read in American Rifleman as gospel. They recently referred to Elmer Keith as "...an obscure gun writer who achieved a small amount of notoriety in the 1940's and 1950's."
Wow!!! In the early sixties until he died, he was arguably the most famous of the the gun writers. It does not matter if you believed everything he wrote; everybody who read gun magazines knew who he was. "...small amount of noteriety...", my arse.
To be fair, the person posting about the danger of casting with wheel weights , did not specify lead. He warned of heavy metals (arsenic, antimony). I do not have any proof that is a problem, but he did not post the article with the study (so we could evaluate if the "study" had scientific merit), either.I get my blood tested regularly since I started casting, and the only time my lead level spiked was just after I got stupid during a smelting session (melting raw wheel weights into clean ingots) and was drinking a cup of coffee while doing it. My level only spiked to 19 mg/dl, and my doctor told me that the normal range is 0 - 20. 6 months later it dropped to 3. During that time I continued casting and loading, but the difference was that I didn't eat or drink anything while doing it.
Plumbers pipe, and solder did not (such pipe is not used anymore), contain the heavy metals, antimony and arsenic, what I think he was referring to....One could absorb heavy metals more so than say a plumber soldering pipe...
And to think when we were younger and went fishing we would bite on the lead weights to get them tight on the line.