Found some scrap lead!

[kellyj00]

http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=1311629&convertTo=USD

now I just need something with a 8,000 lb payload capacity.

 

[armoredman]

You'd think .gov could spell demolition. Very cool, can I have some? I haven't even started casting yet.

 

[Walkalong]

That will keep you busy for a while.

 

[kellyj00]

I'm not actually going to buy it. I don't like dealing with these kind of messes.

Though, there is something kinda cool about a stack of lead ingets that gets me excited.

If I guy was smart, he'd buy it, melt/alloy it to brinell 20-22 or so and sell it off as ingots at $2 a pound. that would be $16,000.

 

[nobody_special]

Yeah, and I found some fired brass, too... even in my state.

http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=1309033&convertTo=USD

*sigh* I'd love to get a few hundred pounds of 9mm and 7.62x51, but not if I have to haul away about 24,000 lbs. of scrap... though the recycling value alone is probably around $30k.

 

[lee n. field]

Group buy?

 

[kellyj00]

do you think that the gov ran all that brass through some sort of heat treatment to pop the primers?

I've heard that makes the brass useless, not sure though.

 

[KaiserBen]

They run some lots of brass through the poppers, but not all. If they heated the lot, it's stated in the description.

 

[kellyj00]

anyone know where I can get a quanity of lead for fairly cheap outside of these guys?

100 lbs would be more than enough for me for right now. That's about $250 through midwayUSA. And please, don't say wheel weights...I've called everyone in town and they're 'already spoken for' by other fellas making sinkers and bullets.

 

[Sistema1927]

I am sure glad that:

MUTILATION NOT REQUIRED AS A CONDITION OF SALE.

I wasn't planning on hacking off some body parts just to get some scrap lead.