Because of its high density and resistance against corrosion, lead is used for the ballast in ships and sailing vessels.
This was a busy week at Nuclead and Sharp Manufacturing; here are some of the projects we worked on. We shipped Lyman #2 Bullet metal alloy, to an ammunition fabricator in Helena, MT. The Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, now in its fourth edition is the standard text book for hand casting bullets, it includes molds … Read more
This week Nuclead shipped several items from stock and also fabricated items and shipped to them various customers. For the second week in a row we shipped lead products from our stock to other machine shops in the USA for their value added services. Nuclead can also provide value added services through Sharp Manufacturing including … Read more
Nuclead is hiring! Last week we hired some new staff members! Orders and shipments this week included lead shielding, lead weights, lead ballast, lead Babbitt and lead flashing. Our customers for these lead products included university laboratories, yacht manufactures, government contractors to the navy, a building supply distributor, local machine tool manufacturer. We also manufactured several … Read more
In addition to our work on lead products there were a couple of housekeeping actions this week. Getting ready for taxes next week, the corporate dead line coming up and the town of West Bridgewater cut down a very large ash tree at the end of the driveway. They said it was dying. There was … Read more
Nuclead was closed Monday 18th in celebration of Presidents Day. Lot of activity during the rest of the week. This was another busy week at Nuclead as we worked on a lot of smaller, local orders as well as the larger orders mentioned below. All the local orders were fabricated and delivered within the week. … Read more
Cleaning up after the Blizzard of 2013. We were on the Natural Gas Back-up Generator for several hours, however the operation did not miss a beat. This was a very busy week for Nuclead, lots of quotes and orders for lead bricks, lead ballast, lead ingots, lead foil and for radiation testing. Radiation testing includes … Read more
Because of lead’s high density and relatively low cost, it has found numerous uses in the form of lead weights, lead ingots and lead billets. Some common uses include counterweights, ship ballast, fishing sinkers, diving weights and in sports handicapping. Lead Counterweights lead counterweight is an equivalent counterbalancing weight that balances a load. A counterweight … Read more
Lead Ballast for commercial ship ballast & other custom applications, in-stock for bulk delivery now. All sizes, form factor and weight of lead marine ballast up to 40,000 lbs. (up to 100,000 lbs. for special pours) in any material from 99.99% pure lead to any percentage of alloy, including antimony, tin, zinc, bismuth and copper. … Read more