Here are some of the activities at Nuclead this week. We shipped lead counterweights; lead shielding and fabricated lead foil for inventory.
Fabricated and shipped, lead counterweights to a machine shop in Rochester, NY. Items will be used as a counter balance in a manufacturing process. Nuclead also has the capabilities to produce counter weights in any size including orders for 300,000 pound lead crane weights, counter balance weights for elevators, movable bridges and fork lift trucks, custom counter weights for defense applications and ship ballast counterweights for all sea going vessels including navy ships, commercial vessels and sailing ships.
Sawed and shipped from in stock items, Lead shielding to a stamping & Die shop in North Babylon, NY. There are many applications that require radiation shielding to protect workers and members of the public from electromagnetic radiation in the high frequency range, lead shielding is also known as x-ray shielding or radiation shielding. Some of these applications include X-ray shielding in the medical and dental field, Lead shielding for personal protection, Nuclear shielding in the power generation industry, X-ray shielding to protect workers at security X-ray machines.
We fabricated lead foil for inventory, Nuclead has one the largest lead products inventory in the USA and we typically ensure that the inventory is maintained by allocating time every week. In this case the lead foil was rolled onto fiber cores to form lead coils. This lead product is primarily used for a sealant type tape on oil rigs; to join drill pipe. In this application the lead foil is used to seal flanged connections, as lead is quite ductile, uses lead foil ensures fast and easy filling and sealing of the joints. As a result lead joints are capable of withstanding pressures 24 times a cast lead joint, in addition to providing long term joint stability due to lead’s general resistance to corrosion.