The metal is smooth, but not shiny. It is super bendable. As soon as I realized what it was, I stopped handling it and washed my hands.

Lead is heavy, but seems such an odd choice for a weight in a consumer device. It must have been cheaper or even free.

  • Redfox8@feddit.uk
    39·
    7 months ago

    Don’t worry, lead isn’t that toxic. It takes a lot more exposure than the occasional handling to get heavy metal poisoning from it. But yes, odd to use lead as a weight (or put a weight in, perhaps it’s a heat-sink?) it’s fairly expensive. It could be a lead alloy which makes it more malleable, though a small peice of pure lead like that I’d expect to be easily bendable, but not compressable like clay.

  • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 months ago

    Lead is dense. It is an easy way to add weight in little space. Golfers use lead weight tape on golf clubs to make them heavier.

      • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
        2·
        7 months ago

        Did the battery have pull tabs at all? It could also be there to hold the battery in place if there were none. That isn’t uncommon either.

          • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
            2·
            7 months ago

            Ok yeah so that sounds like a mounting bracket for the battery itself. That’s normal, probably not lead.

            Genuine Apple batteries will have a pull tab for safely removing the battery, this appears to be a less sexy version of that.