[sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY

[Rude 66]

hey, let me tell you something about lead on buildings..  i live in a
monumental building, sort of art deco style with all these weird shaped
windows, and all the neighbours had leakage for yeeears. they tried
everything to stop water coming in through these diamond and odd shaped
windows.. but nothing helped. then this older window washer guy came to
clean the windows, and he immediately noticed that all the lead strips were
taken off from above all the windows. this was done at the last renovation
in the 70's.. he put some strips back on and hey presto, no more leaks at
all!!

r./




----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Klein" <Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com>
To: "Seb Francis" <seb at burnit.co.uk>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:55 AM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY


> Ha!
> I remember in ~8th grade I was supposed to do a book report on a book
> written about colonial life in New England, and had forgotten about it.  5
> minutes before the class I scanned through the book and caught a section
> describing the lead roofing.  That surprised me so much that I just did my
> book report write-up on it.  It was new to the teacher too and so he gave
me
> an A in the report.  It taught me never to give up on stuff like that -
> always try something and maybe it'll get you by.
>
> If you guys in the UK STILL have lead roofing, well, your government
> probably just doesn't want you to know the truth about lead poisoning  :-)
>
> Barry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Seb Francis
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:37 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY
>
> karl dalen wrote:
>
> >ROhS is not only about lead free electronics its intent is lead free
> >"manythings" such as gasoline, lead free hunting, rifle ammo,
> >lead free car weel balancing , led free fhising, tackles, etc etc.
> >
> >
> >
> Lead free roofs?  In UK (and other countries?) there is a huge amount of
> lead used for flashing on roofs.  I would say that there is very much
> more lead in most people's roofs than in their entire collection of
> electronics, fishing, etc. equipment.
>
> But perhaps this is less a problem because (in theory at least) it
> should not end up in landfill - I would imagine that builders are meant
> to dispose of it properly when it is replaced .. whether they do or not
> is a different matter...
>
> Seb
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