Man, unless the guy has been retired for 20 years and still has a lot of inventory from when he was young, he isn't going to have any. Idon't think they have used cast iron with lead and jute seals since the 60's. Maybe for some repairs, but since the late 60's, PVC has been the drain of choice. Back in 1980, we were renting half of an old house that had been converted to a duplex in Rhinebeck Ny when I was in Poughkeepsie for a year long temp. Within 2 days of moving in, the kitchen drain pulgged up. Being mr fixit , i started taking inventory of what I had to work with in the way of tools, and went down in the basement to get a look at what was comming out of the wall. Back up stairs and call the landlord and tell him that he had a problem. "couldn't be, I put draino down it before you moved in. After some arm twisting, he agreed to send the plumber. I watched the poor sucker and though he was earning every penny he was getting and then some. The drain was a moving history of plumbing, (the house was about 150 years old). PVC from the sink to the wall. It looked like copper coming through the floor into some gavanized pipe for 10 feet or so. That dumped into some castiron with lead seals, then into a notch in the dirt heading to the wall. There was a section of actuallead pipe, collapsed and dented, that was tied into a ceramic tiles going out of the house. I'm glad I wasn't paying the tab. The plumber was there for over 10 hours replacing all the way fromthe sink to the foundation and tieing back in all the feeds.

Garage sales are a good place to pick up old spools of solder. Shoot for the solid core vs the acid orrossin core. You can wind it around motor mounts and the likes for temp instlations untilyou find the balance you want. IT usually will be a 1lb or 2 lb spool with abut 3 inches used offthe end. I'll use itto solder together sheet lead to fit a nitch, then epoxy theslug in place.That gives you a lothigher density than you will getwith theepoxy/lead shot, or especially BB and epoxy.

You could always use the weight of choice for Cal Poly's Aero 101 glider day,rolls of pennys.Ithink the rules require at least$1.00 worth of pennys for a load in their contest.We fly from a field that we built for Cal Poly,and clean up the next couple weeksusually yields 5 or6 bucks worth of pennys. Ithink $12 was the upper limit a couple years back. Copper, or Copper/zink like the newer pennys is a fairly dense material and would make good weights,not as good a lead, but OK.

Don