Roof Sheathing Lead
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Gold is where you find it 
"Lead" in where you find it. 
I thought lead roof sheathing was an English thing?
I thought lead roof sheathing was an English thing?
In the eastern US, lead was used for flashing for a long time. As roofs get replace, it hits the scrap yards."Lead" in where you find it.
Lead from scrap yards is $1 a pound here at scrap yards. A couple months ago I picked up 200 pounds from my cousin for $.65 a pound, that's what the scrap yards are paying. He's a scrapper and bought 18,000 pounds of lead keel weights.
ohio ramrod
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Brag brag brag.
Johnny Tremain
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Before they shut off the lead here (and it can be found in the hills.)
I never paid more than 15 cents a lb. After the ban, I bought all I could for 50 cents lb.
Now that the scrap yards have been closed. $2 a lb.
I never paid more than 15 cents a lb. After the ban, I bought all I could for 50 cents lb.
Now that the scrap yards have been closed. $2 a lb.
Rock Home Isle
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Local scrap yards in my area will not sell lead to the general public
No brag just fact [ had to brag to someone ]
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I got lead scrap from my workplace before I retired. Paid nothing for the lead. Melted it down and cast into ingots. Much more than I will use in my lifetime. I am using some of the ingots for weight training.
I bought a small sail boat on market place. Had about 600# of lead. Repurposed the boat trailer to a lawn mower trailer and sold some of the tik wood to comp for the price of the boat.
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That's my experience here in El Paso Co. as well. I might have found one that will sell to the public. If you want some, just let me know.
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I was in the millwork business for 40 years and back in the ‘80s leaded glass was popular. I saved the lead came cut-offs for rifle balls, good soft lead that pours easily. I still have some. Another source of good clean lead, if you can find it, is from X-ray rooms. I bought some from a scrap yard a few years ago. It’s cleaner than roof-jacks.
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Last time a local church got robbed of its lead - around 2/3 tons or so - the church commissioners called time out, and replaced it with frawk lead. It's a by-product of the iron and steel industry, and is the next level up of the dross/slag that is often used here UK as a road-surface topping. TBH, it is so utterly useless for anything else yet discovered that the 'travelling community' here in UK, renowned for their nocturnal lead-roofing redistribution, are not interested in it.
This leads to a general tidying up of the church roof before this new stuff is installed, and we, the local shooters of lead, are the inevitable beneficiaries [yippee!!].
Free.
The last lot I got hold of is pre-atomic, that is, older than 1945, and is therefore of far greater value to those who use pure lead without all the inevitable nuclear particulates that make modern stuff less 'leady' than erstwhile.
I've got a stash that will pass to at least a couple of generations of muzzle-loaders, and those, like me, who cast bullets for their unmentionable, but nevertheless very old-style shooters.
This leads to a general tidying up of the church roof before this new stuff is installed, and we, the local shooters of lead, are the inevitable beneficiaries [yippee!!].
Free.
The last lot I got hold of is pre-atomic, that is, older than 1945, and is therefore of far greater value to those who use pure lead without all the inevitable nuclear particulates that make modern stuff less 'leady' than erstwhile.
I've got a stash that will pass to at least a couple of generations of muzzle-loaders, and those, like me, who cast bullets for their unmentionable, but nevertheless very old-style shooters.
Rock Home Isle
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Yes…I will reach out to you.
I scored about 100 lbs. of "lead" for free the other day, but most of it is wheel weights. I got about 10 lbs. of soft lead from it, and the rest will likely be made into ingots and traded to some modern hand-casters for soft lead.
LD
My scrapyard charges $2.50…seems like a lot, but I stocked up a little cause I’m always nervous about their supply drying up
http://www.kitconet.com/charts/metals/base/lead-d.gif
Actual price of scrap lead on the market
Actual price of scrap lead on the market
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I was in London once at some church or cathedral, and they had kept in place the Melted Lead from a WW2 bombing, as a testament to the history of the building. It just ran down like the stalagtites (sp.?) in a cave.
