Having a good deal of training and back ground on nuclear interdiction and being trained and later teaching at
Interdict Radacad I have a pretty good idea what I was dealing with.
The story about the rebar Victor tells is referred to at Radacad. There are plenty of others, that can't be told for security reasons...the security issue being more about how much they would scare people than any real threat.
There was less an issue with the radiation warning symbols--a concern, than here was that the patients name was obliterated before the containers left the lab.
Southpaw and I built a pin punch for use with his arbor press. I made a round anvil to hold the plastic cover and let the inner lead container drop through/ Southpaw weld a pin onto a piece of square tubing that fit the ram to punch through the palstic and push the leadout through the anvil.
Work pretty slick as we clear 192 pairs in about 2 hours. The container that didn't have plastic a covers were just spray painted black.
Results a little over 600 lbs of lead alloy.
There never was any concern about contaminated material as the machine used to to unload the seeds monitors and checks for stray radiation and sets off alarms when detected. The room had radiation detector and they even had a Geiger counter-old technology as a back up.
Southpaw and I now have enough lead to last as long time...and I heard from him that he may have a source for more bowling balls.
We will have enough ammo to live to a ripe old age.