My brother-in-law has some funny ideas sometimes. Once we were discussing weighting model boats and he said he planned to send off for lead through the post. We pointed out that the delivery would cost more than the product itself. More recently he suggested going to an architectural salvage yard for lead. There is one near us but the only lead I’ve ever seen there is firmly attached to a small dome they are selling. Anything they keep would be fancy stuff, hardly the sort of thing you fold up and put in the bilge of a boat !
Others have written about tyre shops and the leftover weights when they balance wheels. I’ve bought tyres and think that the old weights are just thrown on the ground and swept up at the end of the day. Maybe other shops are tidier but I doubt it. Anyway, I don’t want to be fishing through the sweepings of their workshop for small lumps of lead that are funny shapes and therefore difficult to stick down.
So, if anyone else is wondering where nice sensible sheet lead weight comes from, here is the answer.
This roll of roofing lead was purchased from Builders & Plumbers for the princely sum of 20 quid. For this you end up with 9kg (just under 20lbs) of flat sheet on a roll. Enough for several boats or literally yards full of model railway wagons. All you do is walk in, pick up the roll, hand it over the counter and then pay. Smaller and larger rolls are available.
Simple huh ?
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