scrap lead prices

[moooose102]

where can i find what the price of scrap lead is going for? i want to accumulate a small stockpile (100 pounds or so) before i plunge into buying all the casting equipment.

 

[Remo-99]

I don't know what the price of scrap lead is in your area, but they only give a small fraction of the new lead spot price, where I am.

Oh and new pure(99%) lead's current spot price is 40 cents for a pound at the moment.

 

[evan price]

The recyclers are paying ten cents a pound for mixed dirty lead of unknown alloy. However none of them will resell lead to private individuals due to EPA issues. YMMV.

 

[earplug]

Colorado Springs scrap price .50 per lbs.

mixture of indoor range lead and wheel weights. I called Dec 17th for price.

 

[454PB]

http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/lead_historical_large.html

 

[putteral]

I just picked up 100 lbs. of wheel weights from a local recycle place today at .40 per pound. I called around to others and that seems to be about the going rate although some say at local tire shops you can get it about $25 per 5 gallon pail. I tried but no one had any for sale. I am also just getting into casting.

 

[easyrider604]

$25 per 5 gallon pail.

That's about what I'm buying them for from tire shops. I'm in Canada though, so my $ is worth less than yours. At this price, home cast lead bullets are the least expensive reloading component at less than $.01 per 158 grain .357 bullet for example, not counting your time.

 

[Chuck Perry]

454PB, the link you posted makes me feel farily positive about where bullet prices are heading. Looking at the 5 year graph, it looks like the price now is about where it was 5 years ago.

 

[Maelstrom]

Did someone say they were paying for wheel weights?

I've been getting them for free everywhere I go.

 

[.38 Special]

The supply of free wheelweights utterly dried up around here several years ago. I've been happy to pay a dollar a pound for smelted and ingoted wheelweight metal.

 

[RustyFN]

The best thing to do is check with your local tire shops for used wheel weights. I had to go to quite a few places before I found somebody that would let me have them. I even offered to buy them and had trouble. The two places I found that were willing to get rid of them give them to me for free. I bring them a 12 pack of Coke every couple of visits which is close to one full bucket. I have around 1,000 pounds that I have collected over the last seven months. Remember if you get pure lead then you will need to add lino or mono to harden it. Wheel weights by themself are perfect.
Rusty

 

[ReloaderFred]

Lead wheelweights are almost non-existant around here. The largest tire dealer in the Northwest, Les Schwab, removed all lead wheelweights from their stores on October 1st, and they have to account for every lead wheelweight they take off a customer's wheel. They use nothing but zinc weights now.

We can thank California for this one.... And the EPA has vowed to completely do away with lead wheelweights within the next two years.

Fred

 

[easyrider604]

And the EPA has vowed to completely do away with lead wheelweights within the next two years.

Yeah, they have to find something to do, otherwise they could be "downsized"

 

[Seafarer12]

Craigslist. Put an ad on there saying you will buy lead. I did it the weekend before last and 250 lbs for about .55 a pound. only 40 of it was WW's the rest was pure lead. About three months ago I did it and got about 200 lbs and paid about .50 a pound 80 pounds of it was linotype.

 

[RustyFN]

Check out Trigger Mountain. The link is in my sig line. Adam had some WW's already smelted ready to cast for $1 a pound.
Rusty