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    I did not give the acid much thought but these were little bats, If I ever go for a larger bat I'll have to give it some consideration but I live in the country so if I was to put it on the road there are no street drains . so it's just gonna disperse . I could flush in to my septic for what harm will it cause in that cud .

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    might not like the loss , once you have all the lead from the Bat out it's a good amount you could go the the yard with it. Now when you put all those plates to melt it seems to me the loss is 50% to 75% of the lead from those plates . It chars up big time . Once lead is molten it flows like water so you can pour into a mold and the heavy char stays behind in the melting pot .
    The first clean melt looks like nice lead , Its lead-- Once a person was to have say 10 15 pounds of those first melts then you can remelt and really clean it
    using wax in the Multan lead and removing Dross.
    As to what I see and research I see lead can be worked but yes you will lose some weight as you purify .There may be some other elements in bat lead that I am unaware of .Still the one pound blob, I used a small sand box and scooped out a long hole as my mold, sure looks nice ,feels heavy for it's size it's lead for sure.



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    As to lead poison I don't take it lightly but I am out side . Also the paint work i did in my life I can tell you was worse than this
    I must have some lead in my system just from the homes i worked on in my life , sanding scrapping absolutely , Oil paints , Moisture cure clear coats , my eyes used to burn . I sand walls and that buds is hay there .
    I seem healthy for all I did so this is what I do & I do it - it's my lot in life.
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