"dead lead value"

[redwing]

What is the going price for pure lead? A firm that makes bullets in Utah priced it to me for $1.25 Lb.
I will pick it up on my way thru no shipping cost.
I have not had to buy lead in 50 years of shooting the stuff but now its getting hard to find.
It is molded in ingots and very clean. I think 100 Lbs. should last awhile. At 7000 Grs. to the Lb. thats a lot of shoot'in. I have noticed the price of Speer and Hornady swaged balls are going up about every month. I shoot WW in my smooth guns, but they are now charging for those things. :hmm:

 

[Rebel]

I found it here for $.50 a lb. Have you tried scrap metal yards?

 

[Bubba45]

Pure virgin lead goes for around $2.00 a lb. retail. Most times you can get sewer rings at scrap metal salvage yards for what Rebel quoted.The tire dealers charge the same scrap price for wheel weights.

 

[Juggernaut]

Pure virgin lead goes for around $2.00 a lb. retail. Most times you can get sewer rings at scrap metal salvage yards for what Rebel quoted.The tire dealers charge the same scrap price for wheel weights.

Bubba45,
Use wheel weights with caution there made from alloys that contain hard metals in them. That can prematurely wear a good barrel. Also can increase chamber pressures.

Juggernaut

 

[cowpoke1955]

A friend of mine just bought a 38 pound roll of sheet lead for $1.00 per pound from a scrap yard.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

A timely inquiry.

I was having tires changed on motor home today, and spotted a bucket 3/4 full of used wheel weights. Being curious as all other guys who cast, I picked up one of the adhesive (sticky) backed ones, and lo, I shaved off the soft metal with my thumbnail.

I got to taking to the tire shop manager, and he said it appears the sticky weights are pure lead in his opinion. Any who, I got 3/4 of a five gallon bucket of them for 15 bucks, and it took two of us to lift it up inside the motor home door.

I will be melting down into ingots outdoors, for the gummy rubber adhesive backing is definitely gonna smoke up a storm.

 

[MikeChapin]

I picked up 200 lbs of cable sheathing in Riverton about a year ago. He was selling it for 22 cents a pound then. Don't know what he is selling it for now. He had a couple of tons of the stuff when I got mine.

 

[redwing]

Yes the flat Mag wheel weights are 99.5% dead lead. They do have just a bit of tin an AS. My neighbor runs a tire shop I pick thru his salvage for these.
There is a shortage of lead and copper due to China buying it all up. I just thought I would lay in a supply, just in case.
Thanks for the input.

 

[redwing]

Mike, well we all will be in Riverton on the Wind River in a few weeks. Maybe I can check this out. I have seen on the news in SLC a number of fellows killed and loss of limbs stealing from Utah Power while the juice is still on.
It seems the price is getting so high on lead and copper that these guys are risking it all for a few dollars more.
The fellows that run the bullet Mfg. CO. just bought the pipes out of an old house in Utah. Can you understand this the owner was still running his water thru this stuff.

 

[CrackStock]

I got 100 pounds of xray lead for $12.50. It was cheaper to sell to me than to ship back to the factory.

CS

 

[MSW]

wow tanstaafl, you made out like a bandit. i am given to understand that the 'going rate' for scrap lead here in the northeast is about fifty to seventy five cents a pound.

whether it's scrap or 'new' i'd melt it outdoors. the fumes are nasty, and it's a good excuse to be outside anyway (which is our natural state of being, unless we're working on a gun, in which case that's our natural state of being).

 

[Fullstock58]

I bought some off ebay for about $1.00 a pound thats to my door with the USPS, that was 1.1 pound bars of pure lead. The flat rate for 68pounds with the USPS is about $9.00. I checked the local scrap yards and they all wanted .75 or more for "scrap" lead, now some of there scrap was not pure lead, but some lino/ww and such. My thinking is (weather right or wrong) by the time I sort,melt and pour into bars I would be in the hole better then $1.00 a pound and I don't have as much time as I would like for messing with cleaning/pouring lead. I would rather be making balls with that time :haha:

Heres the link:[url] http://cgi.ebay.com/68LBs-SOF...00QQihZ013QQcategoryZ31705QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

 

[Will Bison]

I get mine at a local scrap yard (cable sheathing) for fifty cents. They also had some 50/50 ingots at 1.25$ so I had to get some of that.

When I find good lead I buy it by the ton.

 

[redwing]

Yes I think you are right on that one. This lead I am looking at is in ingots all so. I don't mold balls except for the .62 and use WW lead for it. I think with the price and the fact that lead and copper are getting hard to get. Well it would not hurt to have some on hand.
Most of my flinters like the Speer Rbs. But here we go again, the stores are not stocking Traditional M/L supplies every thing is for the Inxxxxs.

 

[Fullstock58]

Our local sports shop asks $12.99 for a 100ea box of Hornady .490 balls, and if I want to drive the 100 miles to a sportsmans warehouse I can get the same balls for $7.99, no thank you, besides If my wife goes with me to Sportsmans warehouse/Basspro type store she makes me spend way more money then what I would like :hmm: So I'm better off doing all I can from the house :grin:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

The price was too good to pass up. I already had three five gallon buckets of the hard alloy clip on wheel weights, but soft lead is getting harder to come by.

 

[Fullstock58]

I have several hundred pounds of WW's and a couple hundred pounds of Linotype, I was running low on pure lead, I'm tring to work a deal for some lead that is in several pound weights but it's local, just haggling the price, one cannot have too much ball/bullet making material

 

[CrackStock]

Fullstock,

I see you live near where we participate in some RevWar activities. 96 (Star Fort), Clinton (Musgrove's MIll), Rural Hill... all within easy driving distances. You're a lucky fella there.

I am with the 2nd SC Regiment

We would be glad to have you stop by for a visit and/or a meal with us at an event.

CS

 

[Fullstock58]

I will check my work schedule and see if I can make some, I have in the past enjoyed the one at 96, Some years ago you were having a reenactment on our hunt club property, in Troy SC near long cane creek, we enjoyed that a lot.