Lead seating is a term that has been used.

Lyle Browning


On Jun 27, 2006, at 7:09 AM, geoff carver wrote:

> anyone out there up on construction terms?
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> Dear all
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> We are trying to work out what we should call the piece of lead that
> secures a piece of architectural iron work (such as an iron railing)
> into a socket in a piece of masonry.  My best attempt so far is  
> "masonry
> socket fill" which is not very elegant.  Do any of you have any better
> suggestions, or indeed do you know of an existing name for this?
>
> Trevor Reynolds
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