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Check the instructions for a painter’s lead test swab or contact the manufacturer for suitability. If suitable, you can just buy some swabs at the hardware store and test. Oh, actually 3M mentions metal on their web page:
The swab should come with a number of true positives / controls. After you do a test, if it comes out negative, you then swab the control. It must come up positive, otherwise either the swab is bad or the test was not done right.
This isn’t going to answer the question of how much risk is involved.