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Lead. Is it safe you work with?
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I know three folks at my gun club, who reload and shoot indoor often that have been tested and had lead levels rangings from 26 mg/dl to 38 mg/dl. They are wearing masks when they shoot now and one is having chelation therapy with EDTA. I had my lead level tested two weeks ago when I had a blood test for my physical. My Level is 12 mg/dl, that's elevated, I reload and shoot one or two times a week sometimes indoors and sometimes out doors.
It's something I will watch closely from now on.
It's something I will watch closely from now on.
oldreloader
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I'm with Snuffy and jcwit on this one.
If lead is so over hyped and not as dangerous as they say, then why take any precaution at all when dealing with it. I would wear a respirator (only $50) if i were to cast lead and rubber gloves if loading with pure lead bullets. I would keep the kids 100% away from the lead as its going to affect them the most. Their are things in the world that seem not to affect you untill you get symptoms, usually by that point its too late.
35 Whelen
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I have a tendency to believe those with direct experience, such as those on this board, more than I do some government entity.
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snuffy
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People can still do as they please in their private lives, at least for now. So you can do whatever makes you feel safe. Some choose not to wear seat belts. Others choose to climb mountains. What is safe for me may not be safe for you.
Please choose your path. I can't work as well with gloves on, even those thin latex or nitril hand wear. I can't have a vent or fan/hood over my lead pot, it would cost way too much right now to vent outside in this Wisconsin winter. So I don't and have no ill effects from it.
Melting scrap lead has a lot of foreign matter to deal with.(some call this smelting, which is incorrect) Especially wheel weights IF you can still find them. That I do outside spring summer and fall with a turkey fryer and dutch oven. The smoke simply goes with the wind.
This thread got me thinking. I typed in smoking is good for you forum. I actually found a forum where they were arguing about all the great health benifits tobacco has and how smoking was good for you because some of the oldest liveing people in the world smoked. Some other people had relitives that have lived for a real long time and smoked 2 packs a day. Some just chalked it up to being a stress reducer. People can do as they wish and they certainly will, they can also believe what they want to believe and nothing will change that. Thats the great thing about this country, we can weigh the risks and the benifits and make our own decissions on what to do, good or bad.
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FWIW, For the entire US population, during and after the TetraEthyl Lead phaseout, the mean blood lead level dropped from 16 μg/dL in 1976 to only 3 μg/dL in 1991. (Reyes, J. W. (2007). "The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime". National Bureau of Economic Research. "a" ref citing Pirkle, Brody, et. al (1994).)
jcwit
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Ya, and look at what we were able to accomplish back in those days, put a man on the moon and built the world we have today, even surivied to old age.
Whats todays excuse?
Guess we just did the impossible!
These sites offer suggestions to limit lead intake. Neither advocates casting in an un ventilated basement. Both recommend positive ventilation over the casting pot, cleaning hands and clothes, plus other recommendations.
What I have not seen is information about the concentration of lead in the air above a casting pot and whether that is in the toxic exposure range.
Safe Handling of Lead when Casting and Tumbling Brass by Glen Fryxell
http://www.sixguns.com/crew/lead.html
Lead Safety by Tacticool Products
http://www.tacticoolproducts.com/leadsafety/
Smoking must be good, George Burns lived till he was over 100. As a part of his routine he joked about when his doctor told him to cut out his drinking and smoking, and he outlived his doctor!
I do know one club member who is down to one lung due to smoking, and I knew lots of smokers who died real fast after they came down with cancer. But that probably had nothing to do with smoking, or George would not have lived so long, right?
What I have not seen is information about the concentration of lead in the air above a casting pot and whether that is in the toxic exposure range.
Safe Handling of Lead when Casting and Tumbling Brass by Glen Fryxell
http://www.sixguns.com/crew/lead.html
Lead Safety by Tacticool Products
http://www.tacticoolproducts.com/leadsafety/
Smoking must be good, George Burns lived till he was over 100. As a part of his routine he joked about when his doctor told him to cut out his drinking and smoking, and he outlived his doctor!
I do know one club member who is down to one lung due to smoking, and I knew lots of smokers who died real fast after they came down with cancer. But that probably had nothing to do with smoking, or George would not have lived so long, right?
jcwit
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I sincerely hope this was ment in jest and sarcasm.
Not all smokers died a quick death from cancer, my dad worked at ending it all for over 5 years and it was a terrible thing for our family to watch.
He never did die from cancer.
Don't try to tell me about a quick death from smoking.
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