Nuclead can manufacture all standard lead alloy pours and custom lead pours to your specifications.
Cambridge, MA August 29, 2016 – Nuclead a leading manufacturer and distributor of custom and standard lead products for research, industry and consumers announces the delivery of several orders for lead alloy, delivered to customers throughout the United States and Canada.
About Lead Alloy
Lead has numerous applications in many markets such as nuclear, medical, military and construction. The properties of lead that make it useful for many of these applications include radiation shielding, high density and corrosion resistance.
Lead is also soft and ductile, properties that make it difficult to use in certain applications, that none the less require the beneficial properties. As a result, many applications will use lead alloy instead of pure lead, where specific required properties are needed.
Often lead is alloyed with other metals such as Antimony, Tin, Arsenic, Bismuth, Copper, and Zinc. Lead Antimony alloys are harder than pure lead and are often used in batteries. Lead Arsenic is used in cable shielding and in the production of lead shot.
Lead Tin / Bismuth alloys have low melting points have low melting points and are useful for applications such as solder.
Several lead based alloys are also known as to as Babbitt metal, lead Babbitt or bearing metal, and are used in the bearing surface on bearings.
Lead Alloy Shipments
- Fabricate and ship 6% – 7% antimony lead alloy round-bar stock. Sold to a machine shop for its own value added services in Utah.
- Fabricate and ship thousands of units of lead alloy, de-coppering Foil. Tolerances of +/- 0.50 grams and thickness of 0.002″ +/- 0.0002″; Ship these extremely tight tolerance products to an ordnance and tactical systems, defense contractor for undisclosed purposes.
- Fabricate and ship customer blueprint items for an aerospace contractor in Canada. These items were fabricated using 6% antimony lead alloy per AMS-7721. These materials are a regular repeat order for this defense sub-contractor in Ontario, Canad
- Fabricate and ship 3 tons of Nuclead “Puritan” Brand, pure Caulking Lead: Five count of Virgin 5# ingots. Sold to a national plumbing supply chain for re-sale to their local outlets.
- Fabricate and ship an order of hardball lead bullet alloy: Sold to a customer ammunition company in Pennsylvania
- Fabricate and ship 500 lbs. of Kirksite Zinc Alloy #4. Sold to an equipment OEM in Texas.
- Extrude and ship 6% antimony lead wire: sold to CMRL; Dept. of Army
- Fabricated and shipped 50 pounds of lead solder. The solder alloy was 30% Tin / 70% Lead Extruded bar solder. Meter Bar, 1lb. per stick; Approx.: 1/2″dia. x 12″. This was sold to an automobile body repair shop in Boonton, NJ
- Fabricated and shipped pure lead and Lead /Tin alloy blocks, these were sold to a finish and plating company in Santa Clara, CA. The company is working on a project that involves electroplating pure Lead for an end customer and need to source new higher purity lead anodes. The company needs to fill a 6″x6″x2″ basket. This could be done using a single slug or multiple slugs (for example 3 @ 2″x2’x6″ bars or 12 @ 1″ dia x 6″ rods). The company needs to get the configuration for highest purity at lowest cost so Nuclead can be flexible on form. At this point they are looking for an equivalent of 10 6″x6″x2″ parts. They also acquired this in an alloy with as close to 1.25% Tin. This helps us reduce the production costs in the future. Future orders, the volume on purchases of the ‘custom’ material would be in the tons per order range. Nuclead provide materials for their immediate needs for the pure lead and lead/tin alloy above.
- Fabricate and ship Babbitt #2: Meets GE Material Spec B21A14C 89%Sn /7.50% Sb /3.50%Cu (Genuine Babbitt, Grade two babbitt): Sold to a Machine shop in New York that specializes in machine building.
Ammunition Metal / Bullet Alloy Shipments
- We fabricated and shipped a standard 40-1 lead bullet alloy for ammunition metal. Sold to an ammunition fabricator in Massachusetts.
- Fabricate and ship Bullet Alloy: 16-1 alloy – 6% Sn / 94% lead; Delivered to a bullet manufacturer in New England.
- Custom bullet alloy, and ship order to an ammunition fabricator in Prineville, OR
- Nuclead also shipped from in stock inventory pure lead for ammunition metal to an ammunition fabricator in Webster City, IA
- Fabricated and shipped pure musket lead ingots. This was sold to an ammunition supplier in McHenry, IL
About Nuclead
Nuclead Mfg. Co Inc. is the leading worldwide supplier of innovative lead shielding, and X-ray inspection products. With nearly 30 years in providing advanced Shielding & X-ray security systems, the Company’s product line utilizes a combination of technologies, and expertise unmatched by any other company.
These technologies offer superior service and products. Nuclead’s has a complete range of lead products – including pure lead and lead alloys which are used in applications such as shielding for cargo inspection, baggage screening and passenger screening systems for facility and aviation security.
Nuclead also supplies products for the Nuclear & energy, Oil, Construction, Manufacturing, X-ray, medical & research, Elevator, Marine/boating, Bridge and Sporting industries.
Nuclead’s sophisticated products are used to protect high-threat facilities and help combat terrorism and trade fraud; Gamma ray, Neutron, & X-ray shielding; and counterweight – ballast- & weight requirements.
Nuclead customers include major universities & research centers, leading Government agencies, military bases, general contractors, manufactures, hospitals and corporations worldwide; including the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and branches of the U.S. Military.
For more information on Nuclead’s products, services and technologies, please visit https://www.nuclead.com or http://www.nucleadinc.com