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Lead tubing in old homes?

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osgood

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Folks, was lead tubing used in older homes for water, electric , or gas conduit, etc ?. I have found it at several sites where homes once stood. Not pipe but long and flexiable tubing. What years might this involve?. Is there a disc number on the fisher ltd that might nix it out temperarily? Thanks, CO
 
Are you sure it is lead? I would think that lead thin enough for tubing would be soft and snap easily. I hope to God it wasn't used for water. JMO
 
Dave, it is very heavy like lead, slightly maleable, and has a whitish patina, only other thing I can think of is pewter?
 
It sounds like lead to me. Be careful handling it as the whitish powder is lead oxide. Wash your hands good and don't breathe the powder.

I was a plumber and remember hearing of lead pipe. It goes back further than when I was plumbing. We used lead for cast iron joints only.

blacktoe
 
My grandfather's home (on my father's side) in Comanche Texas had lead piping/tubing in it when it was first built. It was changed out to copper in 1966/67 I think. My other grandparent's home (on my mom's side) in Comanche Texas also had lead piping/tubing in it. It was abandoned and I don't think it was changed out. I lived in Comanche until I was five or six and visited a lot afterwards and I still remember the taste of that water before and after the piping change out. I remember my parents talking about the lead.
HH
Mike
 
Lead tubing/piping for water goes all the way back to the Romans.

And now they complain about a little lead paint on toys :poke:
 
I remember the school bathrooms and water fountains getting replaced in the early 60's to get rid of the ones with lead pipe. And of course, back then, the solder used to join the new copper pipes to the fittings was mostly lead.
 
Hello, Almost every farm had lead pipe for water back in the day. They just put the spring in uphill of thier homestead and gravity fed the water. Some also used wind mills to pump the water. I think I've dug up a couple thousand pounds of this pipe through the years, another good reason for socieity to support our hobby. At one spot I dug about ten one inch pieces of lead pipe and was about to quit, good thing I didn't because there was a 1884S silver dollar in there with them. Good luck hunting, Darryl.
 
n/t
 
Thank you all for the input and stories. I am going to a spot tommoro where a cabin was supposed to have stood. There is no sign of a foundation. Ive hunted it before and found that lead piping there- I will take precautions and give that site another try. Having found a small spoon there, and a button, I think the piping and an anciet lilac bush confirms for me it was indeed an occupied site. CO
 
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