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sunnybob wrote:Just remember that handling cold lead without gloves, and then not carefully washing, and breathing the fumes from hot lead, is much more dangerous than the hot lead itself.
If you want a safer way of casting small quantities of lead, go surfing for a LEE PRODUCTION POT.
Available quite cheaply from gun magazine ads or or from ebay. I've cast tens of thousands of bullets with one.
sunnybob wrote:Hand washing regularly helps a lot, but lead is actually absorbed through the skin with handling.
30 years ago I had a good friend who's business was casting lead bullets. He handled tons of the stuff daily, and a lot of it was reclaimed lead from ranges with huge amounts of lead dust in it. He had regular tests for poisoning. It was an inherited business, and his father had suffered lead poisoning many years previous.
From an old memory, you get white arcs at the bottom of your finger nails in very advanced cases.
AndyT wrote:I do mean this as a polite question - there are always many options and you have to pick one - but did you consider making a 4.8mm groove and just lightly bevelling the edges of the 5mm maple? It would have been quicker.
NickM wrote:Looking good. That is a very vivid timber.
Tape is a good way to hold small and awkward shaped pieces down but I've found carpet tape can be a bit too sticky (tearing the wood when removing it).
One option I saw on YouTube which worked well was to put masking tape on the bench and on the work piece and to use a few dabs of superglue between them.
NickM wrote:Looking good. That is a very vivid timber.
sunnybob wrote:Brass (brassed) countersunk screws. I find I can use a drill bit or countersink bit to deepen the angles on the hinge holes, which alleviates 90% of the problem.
Drill 1.5 mm pilot holes into the hardwood to stop the tiny screws snapping off.
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AndyT wrote:A suggestion on the hinges. When I made my little walnut box recently, I used some cheap brass hinges from Screwfix. They're not at all bad. They are proper extruded brass with countersunk holes.
The sizes in the descriptions are for the hinge laid flat, so their 25 x 19mm hinge should be ok for your box I think, needing only about 8mm depth of recess, depending how much you want the barrel to protrude.
And they are only £1.29 a pair.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/self-colour- ... tid=463785
sunnybob wrote:I know you wont do this, because its just too simple for you
Forget hinges and make the lid lift off, with a tea caddy type stepped lid.
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