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Offline M7025-06

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For you bullet caster's
« on: June 04, 2013, 08:14:39 PM »
I picked this chunk of lead off my jobsite this morning.  It was installed in 1917 as a phone line (from what I understood from the utility contractor) so it's been in the ground for a spell.  Anyway...I don't know if it's suitable to be melted down and cast, but if it is, it's free to the first person to speak up.  This chunk is approximately 1.5'' wide x 4.5'-5' long.

I'm in Omaha and would meet wherever is convenient.

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2013, 08:23:16 PM »
Sure!

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Offline M7025-06

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2013, 08:29:38 PM »
Sold!!

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2013, 01:47:45 PM »
Cool.  8)  Bullets with a little history.

Good to see you "Lead Benefactors" handling the recycling chores.
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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2013, 03:17:52 PM »
Hehehehehe....

I'll have to mark these particularly bullets as special ... awesome notion of 'with history' heh :)

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2013, 07:21:05 PM »
I haz pipe!

Pleasure to meet ya, too :)
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Offline M7025-06

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2013, 07:30:04 PM »
You too.


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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2013, 05:29:27 PM »
So...

A friend and I played with the pipe for a while...

Drop it on the ground (concrete) and it just makes a thick 'thump' sound and immediately settles.  No bouncy bouncy tingy wingy like you'd get with a normal pipe.  Same for if ya toss it up into the air a bit.

As seen in the pics above, there's one section that was easy to flex back and forth to break off ... hit that smaller section against concrete and it too just makes a thick 'thump' sound and immediately settles without much (if any) of a bounce.

Who knew a lead pipe could be so much fun!

Hehehehe.

Also, it lends a lot of credence to the ole "butler in the library with a lead pipe" stuff.  I'd *HATE* to get hit by the 18-24inch section or so that broke off.  That's just pure crushing abuse.


Oh, with the age given (1917), contents of the pipe (or lack there of), and other stuff... we're assuming it's a water line, btw.
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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2013, 11:12:19 PM »
Glad you like your new toy.   

From what I gathered from the utility contractor...it had a phone running through it but was abandoned a while back. 

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2013, 09:22:21 AM »
I picked up another 4' piece of lead pipe.  Who wants it?

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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2013, 08:57:22 PM »
Me!
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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2013, 07:39:33 AM »
Quote from: sparky0068 on June 17, 2013, 08:57:22 PM
Me!

Are you gonna be in or around Omaha in the near future?



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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2013, 07:48:15 PM »
Friday afternoon perhaps, not sure at the moment.
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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2013, 10:03:27 AM »
I've still got a chunk of lead pipe available to whoever wants it.


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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2013, 07:40:30 PM »
If no one steps up in day or two, I'll take it.
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Re: For you bullet caster's
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2013, 08:31:58 PM »
Good to meet ya again, M7025-06.  And thanks for the pipe!

Wait...

That sounds wrong.
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