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   Jeff_Clarke | Nov 24, 2008 08:05am | #1

   Use copper nails - and by the way ditch the lead - use copper.

   Jeff

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   scorch | Nov 24, 2008 05:43pm | #2

   I can only get copper flashing in 8' lengths. The window is about 2' wide and the lead is free. This is just a garden storage shed so I don't want to spend the $$ for copper, especially in this economy.

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   Jeff_Clarke | Nov 24, 2008 05:58pm | #4

   Copper is cheap right now, and doesn't carry the risks of introducing lead into the environment.

   Jeff 

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   Shacko | Nov 25, 2008 01:43am | #6

   Jeff_Clarke: Where do you find copper cheap?!!........ "If all else fails, read the directions"........

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   seeyou | Nov 25, 2008 01:58am | #7

   Copper coming out of the factory is as cheap as I've seen it in 10 years. But, the distributors and the retailers have to sell what they have in stock that they bought at high prices before those prices work through the system. So, copper is cheaper, but how cheap depends on how fast the dist or retailer turns their stock over.http://www.quittintime.com/      View Image        

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   BryanSayer | Nov 24, 2008 05:45pm | #3

   I think stainless steel will work.

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   michael_maines | Nov 25, 2008 01:31am | #5

   Lead flashing, lead nails.

    

    

   Or stainless steel nails.  The lead ones might bend.

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   mike4244 | Nov 25, 2008 02:26am | #8

   galvanized roofing nails. I have used lead flashing in door openings in X-ray rooms ,we nailed  with roofing nails or screwed with drywall screws .

   mike  

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   seeyou | Nov 25, 2008 02:30am | #9

   I have used lead flashing in door openings in X-ray rooms ,we nailed  with roofing nails or screwed with drywall screws .

   You get much moisture in those X-ray rooms? Were those door openings exposed to weather? http://www.quittintime.com/      View Image        

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   mike4244 | Nov 25, 2008 03:12am | #11

   No moisture, none of the rooms were on outside walls. I do not recall ever seeing an X-ray room with an exterior wall.Most of these rooms were in the interior of hospitals.

   mike

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   seeyou | Nov 25, 2008 04:10am | #13

    

   No moisture, none of the rooms were on outside walls.

   Well, the question was about outside walls.http://www.quittintime.com/      View Image        

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   Sphere | Nov 25, 2008 03:00am | #10

   I had to stuff the door knobs with lead wool in an xray room, but the worst was the PLUMBERS had to hang the lead lined sheetrock, cuz, it was lead..Union rules.

   And by God, when they got done, it looked like a plumber hung it.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   They kill Prophets, for Profits.

    

    

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   mike4244 | Nov 25, 2008 03:23am | #12

   In Philadelphia only carpenters hung the lead lined rock. Wasn't too bad,I was sent to help the rockers do the ceilings.Since I was familiar with lead lined rock I stopped and borrowed a  hurdy gurdy ( the lift the tin knockers use to raise their ducts.)

   Built a box for the forks that got the rock higher than the hurdy gurdy vertical lift.Then used the contraption like a drywall lift.The plumbers installed lead sheeting for the sub base flooring.

   mike