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Re: What to use for ballast

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Originally Posted by jagoldman View Post
My team is looking at lead bird shot ballast. Are there any issues to building a solid aluminum box to bold them in? I saw the earlier comment about in in a plastic bag.
In 2009, we had two water bottles (500 mL?) filled with lead shot, their caps glued on, and the bottles zip tied to the frame. Never had any problem.

To be fair, nothing moved very fast in Lunacy.
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