Plus one for beer crates - I actually used milk crates for many years had a matched pair of black ones.
Can buy them online from 25 quid each now 
£25 for a milk crate? Like a plastic one??
I thought stands HAD TO BE inert. That’s why I bought all that lead shot and endangered my home with it.
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I think I talked about lead loading my Target Audio stands once on Reddit and people FREAKED OUT. I think it was two, maybe three bags of shot. Were I a reloader, next to nothing. In metal stands sealed tight top and bottom.
Between lead and mercury, our sense of proportion on risk vs value is out of line. I miss my mercury thermometers.
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Hear hear!
I have to go out of my way to get leaded solder nowadays - the lead free stuff is rubbish!
As for the milk crates - what can I say I was poor they had a twang around 200hz but otherwise were pretty rigid:) all those cross braces!
Oh, no. It wasn’t a criticism. I was shocked they’re so expensive in the UK. Home Depot sells them here for something like $7.
We used them in college for our TV stand and bookshelves. They’re awesome.
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They are indeed
The uk is a strange place in many ways at the moment, including pricing structures…
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Heck - my mom used to draw a Mickey Mouse in Mercurochrome on my wounds! Back when Led Zeppplin was still Lead-ed!
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Almost nothing damps like lead shot. We still make some lead shot dampers for the auto industry. You would be surprised to know how much lead still gets used in critical applications but not talked about in public places 
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Nothing works like DDT for pest control too
Far from an apt simile.
Lead is safe?
In this application? Yes, lead is safe. It is in four sealed steel tubes that don’t get opened. Like I said, if I reloaded shotgun shells, the amount of lead I have in my stands wouldn’t last all that long.
Sure. Ever hear the phrase, “The dose makes the poison”…?
Cheers.
“I love the smell of Napalm in the morning… It smells like Victory.”
Sort of like this? “There is no known ‘safe’ blood lead concentration; even blood lead concentrations as low as 5 µg/dL, may be associated with decreased intelligence in children, behavioral difficulties and learning problems. As lead exposure increases, the range and severity of symptoms and effects also increases” (World Health Organization). Not that they would know anything about this.
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I don’t believe my comment is incongruent with the gist of the article you linked to.
You are free to disagree, of course.
No known safe level is not congruent with your comment about dosage unless I don’t understand English. Why introduce this material when there are other safe alternatives? To piggyback on your expression: choose your poison.
While lead is a neurotoxin and not safe for human consumption, it has many safe, encapsulated applications as well as other uses.
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Keeping a bowl of lead on the sideboard is one thing. Keeping probably 20 lbs of lead encapsulated in a couple of sealed steel cylinders because it is the best alternative for the application is another. Keeping ammunition in the house probably creates more exposure than I’ll get from my speaker stands, not to mention a trip to the range.
I’m sorry to have broached the topic. Lead remains a controversial topic even when it is low risk-high value.
I’ve made a choice that I’m comfortable with for my life. No need to warn me further, and I won’t recommend it for anyone else.
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