Boolit lead

[Mgderf]

What's it going for these days?

 

[Leadeye]

It's getting harder to get a good deal on anything these days. I found a good deal on the internet, but it's in CA.

 

[Mgderf]

It's getting harder to get a good deal on anything these days. I found a good deal on the internet, but it's in CA.

I just got some for $.50/lb

 

[schmart]

I just got some for $.50/lb

It was double that 20 years ago so I think you got a deal!

 

[Combat Engineer]

I've got access to six 55 gallon drums of used tire weights.These are the old ones...no alloy.I could maybe help someone out?

 

[Creedmoor]

I've got access to six 55 gallon drums of used tire weights.These are the old ones...no alloy.I could maybe help someone out?

What would you want for say, half a drum of them.
I will ad that the 850 lbs I bought last summer from my local scrap yard were 8 cents a lb.

 

[Combat Engineer]

A scrap yard is where these would be coming from.Ill find out tomorrow and get back to you.He may give them to me.

 

[2tonic]

What's it going for these days?

It's getting harder to get a good deal on anything these days. I found a good deal on the internet, but it's in CA.

Downtown parking garage......how many wheel weights can you strip off in an hour?

 

[gassprint1]

Downtown parking garage......how many wheel weights can you strip off in an hour?

Chances are being aluminum wheels, the stick on weights are zinc alloy or aluminum alloy. Don't think your guna find actual lead weights even on steel wheel trucks.

 

[2tonic]

Chances are being aluminum wheels, the stick on weights are zinc alloy or aluminum alloy. Don't think your guna find actual lead weights even on steel wheel trucks.

Did I forget the purple?

 

[gassprint1]

Did I forget the purple?

Don't believe so. There is still alot of people out there that don't know about wheel weights. I seen someone on Facebook a few weeks ago trying to sell newer looking weights as old 1s. You could clearly see they were zinc or another alloy..they looked painted silver/grey color unlike actual lead weights. Back when Obama n company decided to do away with lead, people kidded around about parking lots and junkyards for "finding" lead.

 

[canebreaker]

My local tire stores want $50 and more for a 3/4 filled 5 gallon bucket of mixed wheel weights. The last bucket I bought averaged $1.50 per lb of alloyed lead.
My local scrapyard get 10 to 20 cents per lb for any type of lead. My last visit there was a good size roll of lead pipe. I left it for anyone else.
Another scrapyard wants $1 for lead and $1.25 for wheel weights.

 

[Leadeye]

I just got some for $.50/lb

Sounds like you are doing OK, gather it while you can. It's not like it has a shelf life.

For me it's the driving that adds up, if the CA deal was anywhere close I would close it.

 

[Leadeye]

Regular lead is what I'm looking for, but if going to have to drive far I want at least 1000#.

 

[canebreaker]

I hate shipping lead. It's heavy and a flat rate box doesn't hold up very well. Cost of shipping drives the price up too.
We ask for a mule down here. That's someone traveling from your area to buyer's area that won't charge to carry it along. Not many mules in the northern part of the state traveling south.

 

[Creedmoor]

Regular lead is what I'm looking for, but if going to have to drive far I want at least 1000#.

Hoarder...

 

[Mgderf]

Hoarder...

I picked up about 300lb for $.50/lb, already poured into ingots.

 

[Creedmoor]

I picked up about 300lb for $.50/lb, already poured into ingots.

This is part of the load that ended up being about 700lbs of wheel weights after sorting them.
If one keeps asking, it can be found. I have also mined a few ranges over the years.

 

[Combat Engineer]

Talked to the guy that owns the place,twenty cents a pound.

 

[Mgderf]

My local tire stores want $50 and more for a 3/4 filled 5 gallon bucket of mixed wheel weights. The last bucket I bought averaged $1.50 per lb of alloyed lead.
My local scrapyard get 10 to 20 cents per lb for any type of lead. My last visit there was a good size roll of lead pipe. I left it for anyone else.
Another scrapyard wants $1 for lead and $1.25 for wheel weights.

Our local scrap yards refuse to sell anything back to the public.
They will buy from you, but will not sell to you.