Another source for X-ray lead is a high volume dental office. The stuff they use is small and thin, like a large band-aid. My dentist saved them for me and when I got a whole big box full hoarded I melted them down. Yield was only a couple ingots so I gave up that pursuit.

My sister is a Radiologist and I've bugged her for those old isotope containers but her office has a policy that forbids them giving them away like that. Grrr.

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