With the Fort Ord ranges just a few miles away you may be talking .30 and.50
caliber bullets as the origin of the lead in the first place.
Wes
on 11/11/02 1:00 PM, Albaugh, Neil at albaugh_neil@ti.com wrote:
> Anybody want to calculate how many 158 grain .38 caliber bullets you could
> cast with that much lead?
>
> Regards, Neil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick J [mailto:lsr_man@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:45 AM
> To: Albaugh, Neil; 'DrMayf'; W S Potter; Glen Barrett;
> landspeed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Lead - not BOndo, but! (NO LSR)
>
>
>
> And then there was the custom '56 Mg coupe that I spotted behind a house in
> Pacific Grove, California when I was there in the Army. It turned out that
> it had actually won it's class in the Oakland Roadster show many years
> before, but it was in really poor shape. I decided that the best thing to
> do was cut off the custom "split window" hard-top, and turn it back into a
> roadster. I sold over 400 pounds of scrap lead that came off with the roof!
> Honest! I actually got more for the lead than I paid for the car, and more
> than I sold the car for when I got transferred.
>
>
> Dick J In East Texas
>
>
> "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mayf;
>
> You'll have to beat 30lbs. In an IROC practice session at Riverside back in
> '72, Richard Petty got pranged in the left rear of the Porsche 911 that he
> was driving. There wasn't time to do much body repair work overnight so it
> was just pounded out a little and filled with big gobs of Bondo. They had a
> bank of heat lamps to make it dry quicker between adding more layers of
> Bondo. The next morning, a quick shot of spray-can Krylon and it was ready
> for the starting grid.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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