Historic masonry buildings fail at the flashing before they fail anywhere else. Shelf angles, lintels, foundation transitions — these are the locations where water infiltration starts, where mortar erodes, and where poorly chosen flashing materials have been causing callbacks and repairs for decades. If you’re specifying or installing through-wall flashing on a historic masonry project, … Read more
Chimney flashing is one of the most failure-prone details on a sloped roof. The geometry is unforgiving — multiple step joints, a counterflashing that has to ride over masonry it doesn’t control, and constant thermal cycling between a sun-exposed chimney and a shaded roof slope. The material you pick has to handle all of that … Read more
Nuclead provides Materials, Machining, Fabrication and full Assembly services of; Syntactic Foams, “SATB”, “SADM-1” & “SADM-0.5” Materials; for all your Underwater Acoustic and Underwater Buoyancy requirements. These Syntactic materials, known as the SADM and the SATB families of syntactic foams, have repeatedly shown high levels of echo reduction and insertion loss over the 10 KHz … Read more
Nuclead’s elevator weights have been used in buildings both old and new, in school buildings, and in high-rise buildings. Nuclead has continuous lead pouring capability up to 40,000 lbs. standard and up to 100,000 lbs. for special requests, and can manufacture custom lead weights in any size up to those amounts with lead to service … Read more
The Use of Lead Sheet for Soundproofing. Introduction Soundproofing describes a number of different methods of reducing the volume level of a particular sound and a particular point in space. For example, rooms next to a noisy factory or a house near a highway. Since sound is vibrations in some medium, usually air then it … Read more
Assemblies, Laminating and Lead Lining Nuclead provides 100% fabricated assemblies and sub-assemblies. All metal and aluminum products and weldments are fabricated then assembled with your lead items for a complete assembly. Finished products can be plated, powder coated or painted to any specification and are certified. This means a complete product arrives on your dock, … Read more
Nuclead welds lead items with any alloy, with any diameter wire required. Custom Lead Welding Services: Lead 3D Machining & General CNC Machining Lead Assembly – Lamination, PSA/Adhesives& Stamping, Sawing & Cutting Lead Alloy Pours & Mold Fabrication Gamma Inspection Quality Control Call our offices today for more information on our custom services. Please click … Read more
Radiation Shielding for commercial, industrial & other custom applications, in-stock for bulk delivery now. Radiation shielding for applications including X-ray shielding, MRI shielding, Nuclear shielding and Neutron shielding can provide significant radiation protection for workers in the medical and nuclear industries. The radiation getting through falls exponentially with the thickness of the shield. In x-ray … Read more
Lead Fit All Plugs for commercial, industrial & other custom applications, in-stock for bulk delivery now. Nuclead provides the highest quality lead fit all plugs Lead fit all plugs are also know as lead clean-out plugs or threaded lead plugs, they are provided with leaded threads for ease of fit. Most common sizes are available … Read more
Scrap lead bought and sold in bulk for commercial, industrial & other custom applications Nuclead will sell and buy any clean lead. For information on the factors affecting scrap lead prices please click here. Selling Scrap Lead Nuclead has tons of clean lead in drops or shavings (chips). We sell this lead for a fraction … Read more