Lead wool is used for sealing pipes and other waterproofing applications, radiation shielding blankets and in aerospace applications to balance propellers and helicopter rotors
This was a busy week at Nuclead and Sharp Manufacturing; here are some of the projects we worked on. We shipped Lyman #2 Bullet metal alloy, to an ammunition fabricator in Helena, MT. The Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, now in its fourth edition is the standard text book for hand casting bullets, it includes molds … Read more
This was another busy week at Nuclead. We fabricated and shipped a variety of lead products from our large inventory of in stock lead. This includes lead weights, lead caulking, lead wool and lead glass. In addition, we also shipped lead foil and lead wool straight from inventory. Nuclead also CNC machined certain pure lead … Read more
Among the shipments this week the properties of lead that were important was its corrosion resistance. Lead was used to protect oil rigs in a salt environment and to provide stable joints in lead flashing. Also, lead weights to trim racing motor cycles. Here are some the examples of these weeks’ activities: Fabricated and shipped, … Read more
This week we had a big shipment week at Nuclead, getting out a lot of orders that had been recently placed with us. Among the orders shipped by Nuclead this week were orders for lead foil, lead wire, lead wool, lead diving weights and lead sheet. Many of the orders we receive can be shipped … Read more
High quality lead wool in 5-50 lb. waterproof packages (per QQ-C-40) Lead Wool is chemical grade lead, drawn into long thin strands and twisted into 5/8” rope. Chemical grade lead is lead that has been refined to a purity of at least 99.94 %. This grade of lead is also known as “corroding lead”, the … Read more