This was some pure lead from medical equipment. melts at over 600F instead of the 560F I'm used to for printers lead. Lino-type metal flows and casts great but is brittle and you can't bend it. This stuff bends easily but shows a lot of flow lines. I heated the mold up as much as I could. I had a small fire on my workbench. I think the commercial stuff is cast in sheets and then rolled into the desired thickness. That would help a lot with it being pliable.
Real came is too thin. I already tried it. They didnt have machine rolled came for this time period. This work is very crude and I'm trying to stay true to it. I'm guessing that was a typo. You said .016 (1/64) but I think you meant .16 Looks like it coiled up pretty easily. I dont care what it looks like on the face. It's just the edge that's important here. Ya dont hear that one often.
If you want crude this should be fine. Yes, .16 Send me your address and I'll stick this in a flat rate box.
I was shooting for .1875 , 3/16 " I can put in thinner spacers and see how it comes out. CRAP, stupid Sometimers. I thought you wanted 3/16 not 3/32.
I suspect it's probably extruded. That's the most precise way of controlling thickness. Some Dentists still use thin lead plates when taking X-Rays with conventional equipment too. They're pretty little though.
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I'm afraid not. I saw some down in austin recently. It's much smaller and paper thin. Only suitable with thin flat glass.
