Quote Originally Posted by Team M&M View Post
Hopefully they will slowly phase lead out and just make it illegal to manufacture anymore. You'd still be able to use what you have on hand.

This is just like the old 3 wheelers and the law they made for them. They essentially made it illegal to manufacture anymore but if you already owned one it wasn't illegal to use it and I'm almost certain they will do this for lead sinkers as well.

Now who's to say that the homemade sinkers you have were manufactured post or pre ban? Might be good time to buy a few molds and put em back for a rainy day.

I know a guy that made some weights out of tin but I never asked him how they worked out. I'm not sure if the process is the same as lead and you can just melt down any sheet of tin but if you can, theres an old barn close to me that has about 40 sheets of old tin on it, lol
We're better off with no regulation. If there's a regulation, with or without a transition period, we will eventually lose the right to pour and use lead jigs. Anyone who wants to make a voluntary transition is free to do that now without a regulation.

Tin melts at a lower temperature, but it costs 7 times as much as lead and is much less dense (meaning you'd have to use bigger cavities to cast jigs of the desired weight). Those old "tin" roofs are probably steel with a tin coating.