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A ban on lead in fishing?

Anyone remember seeing these? 😉
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Stephen Crowhurst said:
Price per tonne of Tungsten is roughly $340 vs $1900 for lead.
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I’m pretty sure you’re missing a couple of decimal places there Stephen.
Tungsten is many times more expensive than lead. I’m out of touch with it all now but but I’d say lead is probably around £1.50 kg ish and tungsten I’d guess to be 20x that amount and that’s scrap value.

Tungsten would be a better lead than lead as it’s even denser.


Unfortunately though that’s the only advantage as It also melts at stupidly high temperatures and is incredibly hard as nails to machine.

If it was ever to hit the tackle shops in 2-3oz pears, we’d probably be paying £50 a piece for them.
 
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I would say that, in my opinion, lead weights are better? One because of the cost of brass or tungsten. Two because of the size difference of the lead free metal weights and of stonze weights, 3 because of the amount of carbon per tonne of cement for the concrete weights, so use lead and don’t throw them away into the water we fish. 👍🏻
 
Richard Isaacs said:
I’m pretty sure you’re missing a couple of decimal places there Stephen.
Tungsten is many times more expensive than lead. I’m out of touch with it all now but but I’d say lead is probably around £1.50 kg ish and tungsten I’d guess to be 20x that amount and that’s scrap value.

Tungsten would be a better lead than lead as it’s even denser.


Unfortunately though that’s the only advantage as It also melts at stupidly high temperatures and is incredibly hard as nails to machine.

If it was ever to hit the tackle shops in 2-3oz pears, we’d probably be paying £50 a piece for them.
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Look it up. Those are the rough prices per tonne, not the value per tonne at the scrap yard.

As you say it’s denser, with it being denser it behaves differently and is more subtle which is why it’s great for jig heads.
It’s not a pipe dream, it’s already a thing. We’re using them commonly for beads in Carp rigs, float Olivettes and in lure fishing.

They are as you say expensive in heavier sizes but that’s party due to the manufacturing. If we made the weight from raw rod then encapsulated it in resin or something to make it the same profile/size I believe we could make them significantly cheaper. There probably better alloys to choose etc and this problem may never come to pass.
 
I won’t argue with you Stephen on it as I’m out of touch on it all but I will say I’ve had a lot of involvement with the metal and it’s never been cheap from my experience to buy in any form
 
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Richard Isaacs said:
I won’t argue with you Stephen on it as I’m out of touch on it all but I will say I’ve had a lot of involvement with the metal and it’s never been cheap from my experience to buy in any form
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It will present change, that’s life isn’t it but we will find a way around it. That is, if it ever comes to pass.
 
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