Heavy Metal Work

[cavelamb]

Pouring a 6000 pound lead keel for a sailboat.

http://www.riparia.org/ketch/keelpouring.html

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Richard Lamb
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/

[Bill McKee]

"cavelamb" <cave...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I love those brass anchor bolts. When I was in high school, my boss was
building a sailboat. Hurricane. And I got the job of drilling the 4000#
lead keel with through holes for mounting bolts. Drilling lead is a rather
nasty job. Kept melding and sticking to the drill bit, if you tried to rush
the drilling.

[cavelamb]

Dunno if this is right or not, but for some reason I seem to recall that the
drilling lube for lead is, excuse me, milk???

[Ned Simmons]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:39:19 -0600, cavelamb <cave...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

Kerosene works when cutting lead with a chainsaw or shaping it with a
power plane. I've never drilled lead for keel bolts; the normal
practice is to cast them in place.

[kfvo...@gmail.com]

On Mar 2, 6:39 pm, cavelamb <cavel...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Bill McKee wrote:

> > "cavelamb" <cavel...@earthlink.net> wrote in message

That sounds right to me but I don't know where I read it.
Karl

[Bill McKee]

"cavelamb" <cave...@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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Would have been nice to know that in 1959. I ran a small flow of water in
to the hole before it got too deep. Then I just had to pull out the drill
bit and remove the lead. Get the Lead out, in other words. :>)