Lead Ingots-Help me Help you

[silicosys4]

For me to want to pay to ship range lead of unknown alloy, it would have to be less than $1/lb. I can get unknown lead alloys from multiple recycling shops around town for $.50/lb, and lead of known alloy for $.40/lb for sorted wheel weights, to $.75/lb for soft lead roofing flashing. If you could guarantee your alloy percentages, I would imagine it would be worth more money. It sounds like you cannot, so the next best thing to me would be a guaranteed BHN number with each lot of ingots.

 

[silicosys4]

Where?!?!? Where are you guys finding WW's for $1 per lb. shipped? Also, Rotometals cheapest alloy (alloy, not lead), is almost $3 per lb. in 200+ lb. lots.

Used to be Ebay before the panic, using flat rate shipping boxes. I'd suggest looking for recycling stations around where you live, they could very likely have a pile in the corner. I was able to talk down my recycling station's lead price on wheel weights by arguing that $1/lb was ridiculous for an impure alloy that was chock full of lesser value steel clips. On Ebay, I looked for wheel weights themselves, but if you want them you can find auctions for presmelted ingots of wheel weight lead. Danger though, those can be of unknown alloy.
Search "wheel weights" , "casting lead", or "scrap lead" to find them

 

[Certaindeaf]

How are you going to smelt it? Do you already have a honking smelter? As to ingot size, over at castboolits a lot of guys use "V" channel steel of various lengths.. it nests well inside USPS boxes.. measure the boxes to maximize/optimize ingot size/shape. good luck

 

[35 Whelen]

Used to be Ebay before the panic, using flat rate shipping boxes. I'd suggest looking for recycling stations around where you live, they could very likely have a pile in the corner. I was able to talk down my recycling station's lead price on wheel weights by arguing that $1/lb was ridiculous for an impure alloy that was chock full of lesser value steel clips. On Ebay, I looked for wheel weights themselves, but if you want them you can find auctions for presmelted ingots of wheel weight lead. Danger though, those can be of unknown alloy.
Search "wheel weights" , "casting lead", or "scrap lead" to find them

I know well that it USED to be on eBay, but it is no more. Ingotized WW's are bringing at least $1.50 shipped. I manage to keep quite a bit of lead around, but I shoot so much, that I'm always looking for more.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Just make sure to pour some lead into some beer cans. a lot of people have cannon in that/for that size.. but then again, most use concrete
lolz

 

[Dr_B]

I'd like to buy some ingots. Send me a PM.

 

[stevehenry1]

Canuck-IL- It isn't "lazy" postal workers- The facility I used to work in was HUGE (5+ acres under roof}, and when bullets broke open the machinery would spread them all over the building. They fall deep into the sorting machines, and management is raising hell to get the machines started again. They will still be finding bullets and those blasted state quarter s until they scrap the machines and tear down the building.

 

[Searcher4851]

Bill-
In response to your questions:

1. I've paid up to $1.00 per pound shipped. (I just barter for lead when I can though)

2. Over the internet, 50# lots are easily shipped through USPS. Depends how it's cast and packed. If you were to custom cast ingots sized to pack well in standard USPS flat rate boxes, you could up that. USPS seems to be the most economical, using the flat rate boxes.

3. see # 2.

Good luck in your new undertaking. Perhaps we can do some business in the future.