Help with lead

[camp]

Someone gave me 3 bricks of lead , they 25lbs a piece , what is the best way to cut these up so they will fit into my lead pot.

I thought about using a air chisel but not sure that is the best way.

Thanks

[Caster]

How thick are they? THick blocks of lead are troublesome.

[Guest nysos]

resmelt it into more manageable ingots using a large cast iron pot maybe?

[Guest Grout]

hacksaw?

[Jonnin]

if it is soft lead (I dunno, test it with a junky knife?) you can cut it with almost any steel cutting device, a saws-all, for example, though i would personally try to use something like pruning shears that did not make any sort of "sawdust" if at all possible.

If it is long and thin enough you might be able to bend - break it, lead will break after a few bends.

You could heat up a thin wire (possibly electrically?) and melt right thru it to carve off a chunk, if careful.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Hold it above the pot and torch it. It will melt where the torch is and they will drop into the pot. That is what I did when I had some huge lead bricks.

Dolomite

[Caster]

I have, on large hunk that were otherwise unmanageable, used a wood cutting handsaw and some wd-40 to keep the teeth from loading up.

[Rickey]

a ax will do it

[camp]

Thanks all, I just got home and the air chisel seems to work pretty well , they are 3 in thick so I just kept flipping it over and worked on both sides, I might try the axe idea tommorrow, I don't want to try the saws as I want to keep the dust to a minimum

[RED333]

Hold it above the pot and torch it. It will melt where the torch is and they will drop into the pot. That is what I did when I had some huge lead bricks.

Dolomite

This works very well.

[Guest Riverrat]

They will fit in a cast iron pot. Set the pot to one side of the burner so the heat won't melt what is hanging over the edge.

[camp]

This works very well.

cool i will try it this weekend if i can remmeber where i left my tourch

[camp]

They will fit in a cast iron pot. Set the pot to one side of the burner so the heat won't melt what is hanging over the edge.

although i have about 4 cast iron pots i dont want to go this method as i use the for cooking around the camp fire ,but thanks