I know I'm distracting from your story, but did your Dad put a large hunk of lead in your family water well?
Window weights are generally cast iron, but even if it were lead, it won’t do a damn thing to water quality, as elemental lead in that form is nearly insoluble in fresh water.
:: did your Dad put a large hunk of lead in your family water well? ::
Sounds like he also “pulverized” that hunk of lead.
” Dad put a large hunk of lead in your family water well?”
Nope, it was made out of cast iron. We have always been into reloading and making our own bullets for target practice, so using lead as a weight would been out of the question.