Awesome!
Ben Trousdale
--- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
>
> Jamie, I takes a frugal old German to "out cheep" you. I occasionally
> do a weekend four mile walk. I just keep one eye on the gutter. Often
> I can bring home a handful of thrown wheel weights, so the lead is now
> free. I can melt the lead into shapes and it keeps the pollution out of
> the water. My first project was to actually pour lead into the hollow
> NE centersill material. Use a scrap piece and pour the molten
> lead--remove and put into the car you're modeling (in my case it was two
> AF gons). You can use the scrap centersill a few times before it
> scorches too badly.
>
> Bob Werre
>
>
> On 10/31/12 7:58 PM, Jamie Bothwell wrote:
> >
> > Darrell,
> >
> > A few years ago I bought some lead shot for this purpose at Cabella's.
> > For fun I had my students figure out if pennies were cheaper. Lead
> > was cheaper by a factor of two or three. I should probably do the
> > computation again in 2012 dollars (or cents). That's dolers to you Jim.
> > Jamie Bothwell
> > Bethlehem, PA where we have light and heat again (at least in my house)!
> >
> > On Oct 29, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Darrell wrote:
> >
> >> BTW, I am using PENNIES for car weight. They are the cheapest price
> >> per pound of any weight available unless you have free weights
> >> available. Plus they are easy to adjust to the correct weight per car.
> >>
> >> Darrell S.
> >
> >
>
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