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Are there any molds so a DIY person could make their own lead geotags? Lead is easy to melt, all I would need is a mold to make my own geotags as signature items. It could even be a simple one sided mold.

 

Or how about some type of coin stamp to stamp wooden coins? That would be easy too. I guess the person would just pay to have the mold made, then cut up wooden coins and stamp them.

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tin melts almost as easily as lead and is not nearly as likely to cause health problems - on the other hand, I have worked with lead most of my adult life and routine tests for lead in my system invariably come up with levels well below anything that would trigger alarm among healthcare professionals.

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ohhh nooo not lead thought this was a prohibited metal? Not safe for the younger geocachers who may suck, chew, ingest this item! (cos metals taste good!)

On a positive note I did spot a website that made geotokens from wood this morning will look for the link! I think they used an acid based solvent to "Engrave" the tokens also they use a laser cutter to make "TB's"

good luck and Happy Easter

minxyy

here's the link http://geocoins.net/catalog/index.php?cPat...322f954139b1377

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I'm not a big fan of lead.

 

I am. I take a large block of lead and use a cheese grater to make a fine lead dust. Tastes great mixed with absinthe.

Well, you ain't tasted nothing yet! I use pretty much the same recipe and procedure that you do, but then I add about four ounces of mercury chloride in the form of calomel powder, and two ounces of finely ground polonium 210, and a tiny smidgen (maybe a hundredth of an ounce) of plutonium powder, and then mix it all up with some milk and drink it while eating a cookie! Wow! I also find that rubbing the polonium 210 and plutonium powder into the skin of my face twice a day really improves my complexion and erodes wrinkles.

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I used to use plaster of paris to mold lead coins. Pour a half mold w/plaster. Insert coin or other object halfway and let harden. Smear exposed surface area w/some kind of release agent like petroleum jelly then pour the other half of the mold. When dry seperate the 2 halves, remove the item and dig a cone shaped opening connecting the top of the mold impression to one edge of the mold and this becomes the funnel for the molten lead. Pour it in, seperate the mold and voila! The detail wasn't great but it was good enough to read the date on a quarter impression. (which we of course never ever used in gum machines!) :cry:

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Lead is a hazardous metal. Please lick your fingers...

Anyone want a lead brick?

I have a dozen and use them for radiation shielding in my experiments. An 8 inch by 4 inch by 2 inch brick weighs 26 pounds so it would be trouble shipping cost effectively.

Yes, I too have been down that route already! I have some thick lead sheet pieces here for shielding when doing my research, but I have often used large buckets or drums filled with water to block the neutron radiation from my fusion experiments, as lead does not block neutron radiation well.

 

As for shipping those lead bricks, my sugggestion is as follows: wrap one well in bubble wrap and place it in one of the 10"x6"x"6" USPS Fixed Rate Priority Mail boxes, reinforcing each inner wall with two layers of corrugated cardboard cut to fit. Your total shipping cost will be the $8.10 fixed rate for the USPS Priority Mail box, plus some scrap pieces of cardboard, 50 cents worth of bubble wrap, and a few feet of transparent package sealing tape. I speak from experience here, as fellow researchers and I regularly send 25 pound bags of magnetite black sand via the same means.

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