Lead for casting roundballs
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ThomasT
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Keep looking. lead is out there. I used to have a deal with the walmart tire store manager to buy their lead. When a 5 gallon bucket got half full I would pick it up for $5.
The other day in the WM parking lot a pickup had a pile of sheet lead in the bed. there was a kid in the truck so I ask what he was going to do with it. He said sell it for scrap. How much do you think you will get for it I ask? Thirty bucks or so. I ask if he would take $20 and save the trip to the scrap yard? He did. When I got it home and cut up into smaller pieces I weighed it. I got 257 pounds of dead soft lead for 20 smackers.
Now I have around 300lbs of dead soft, 1000lbs of wheel weight and 80lbs of linotype. I don't look for it much anymore.
I did tell my wife that if I croak don't throw it away. At least she knows its worth a little money.
The other day in the WM parking lot a pickup had a pile of sheet lead in the bed. there was a kid in the truck so I ask what he was going to do with it. He said sell it for scrap. How much do you think you will get for it I ask? Thirty bucks or so. I ask if he would take $20 and save the trip to the scrap yard? He did. When I got it home and cut up into smaller pieces I weighed it. I got 257 pounds of dead soft lead for 20 smackers.
Now I have around 300lbs of dead soft, 1000lbs of wheel weight and 80lbs of linotype. I don't look for it much anymore.
I did tell my wife that if I croak don't throw it away. At least she knows its worth a little money.
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