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I was wondering where I find a good supplier of soft lead that won't break my piggy bank. I have bought off ebay with mixed results and finding lead at the scrap yard around here is really hit and miss. I'm looking for a couple hundred pounds. Thanks in advance for the help.
Brim
RotoMetals
They have reasonable prices
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Or get to know a roofer that does residential re-roofs. The pipe shrouds are pure and they replace them regularly. You would have to clean them but it works for me.
The seller "jaystone707" on ebay has excellent lead and service, works out to about $2.50 per lb and is very soft. Unfortunately they had a death in the family and usually close in the winter anyway; so they have been closed for a few months.
Also telephone repair guys, black powder cartridge shooters. The black powder guys will have a line on pure lead at reasonable prices.
Make friends with local plumbers. I have a couple guys that are happy with a case of beer for 60lbs of scrap lead. They give me a call about once a year
I sent you a pm
Thanks Y'all.
I was in the same boat as you couldn't find any lead locally. Finally found a tire place not the major stores but a smaller one that had buckets of lead wheel weights. Bought 100# for $15. Did have to melt it down into ingots. After all the melting and removing slag I ended up with 78# for the little I paid for it. The shop that had the weights just didn't want to waste time to take the lead to scrap dealer.
Wheel weights aren't pure lead. They're hard lead and contain other metals like zinc, tin, antimony and others to help them hold their shape and not fly off. It still works OK but you might have to raise the temp if they don't fill all the voids and can be aggravating in the smaller sizes.
Not pure and has steel fastners so lots cheaper . Not real soft , alloyQuote:
Originally Posted by sparkie51
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Looks high to me . I know guys that scrap out electrical insulaters that have lead in them . I think they charge well under 1 buck a pound depending on market price .Quote:
Originally Posted by algenco
My local tire dealer wants $40 for a bucket of wheel weights. The local scrap dealer wants 0.30 per lb. Got to sort the lead, alloy, zinc, steel, trash and scrap before starting to cast ingots. The alloy does a pretty good job of casting sinkers and bullets. I hold onto the lead weights until a get a good amount. I clean out the high school ROTC pellet range room twice yearly. Along with the cadets helping it takes about 2 hours. With the lead wheel weights I get about 50 lbs of pure lead ingots. My last casting of pure pellets was 26 lbs. I sort out the zinc and cast large tractor weights. I cast ingots over a fire pit, no problem getting the heat up for lead and alloy. Have to get the fryer base out for the zinc.
Call Louie at grizzly jig.and Catfish sinker's usually 1-2 oz weights.Meltdown and re pour.Duck Decoy weights. Cheap.and clean.
Heard lead is gonna be a thing if the past with the bill Obama has passed before he left presidency.