Well, it's official...

[imashooter2]

...my last source for free lead has dried up. http://forums.1911forum.com/images/smilies/bawling.gif

I have stock for about 5 years at current consumption. The search starts anew, but I've pretty much covered the territory already.:(

[Newtire]

There's always hope. Alot of things change in 5 years.

[Bass Ackward]

Ah, there will be a recession by then. And China's economy is going to tank after this August when the olimpics are done. So I figure lead prices will drop to the point where recycling ain't worth the cost. Then they will be throwing it away in the dumpsters again.

Acquire when no one else wants what you do. Goes for stocks, real estate, or lead and GCs. :grin:

[Wayne Smith]

We just chose a contractor to re-do two bathrooms. I asked about lead, he says he has lots of it, 40lbs at the moment. Two fisherman casting sinkers, I can have the rest. We'll work out the details when we go to sign the contract.

Call kitchen/bath specialists in your area. Roofers, too. It'll be all soft lead but that can be handled.

[jack19512]

[QUOTE=imashooter2;283518]...my last source for free lead has dried up. http://forums.1911forum.com/images/smilies/bawling.gif

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Went through that myself just recently. I have around eight buckets of wheel weights(6 gallon) and one bucket of ingots. No more than I shoot my supply should last me a long time.

[jack19512]

Then they will be throwing it away in the dumpsters again.







I'll only believe that one when I see it. [smilie=1:

[mtgrs737]

I have lost three out of five sources to the scrouge and sell types in the last year. Thank goodness the best one is still providing enough weights to make it worth while. Which reminds me today would be a good day to stop by and see him.

[jack19512]

I stopped by a tire place today and got a handful of weights. It's one more handful I didn't have before. One thing I have had to learn the hard way is you don't turn down even a small amount of weights, something I did a lot of in the past.

[Pavomesa]

I've found that if you watch the pavement as you pull up to a stop sign, there are frequently wheel weights lying on the ground there and I'm sure not above stopping to pick them up.:-D I guess if one comes loose on a tire, the centrificul force keeps them in the rim until the car stops.

Talk to your local tile men. Each time they rip out an old lead shower base they get about 80 lbs of lead.

[spurgon]

Bass Ackward

Tell me more about China's economy going in the tank.
I'd like to believe that .
spurgon

[Scrounger]

I doubt that China's Economy going into the tank would help us in any way.....

[dmftoy1]

I'm not finding much locally but I do tend to find stuff on "road trips". On my last road trip I picked up 400lbs . . . .I think for me the key will be to take buckets anytime I go to visit relatives, work trips, etc etc.

[Bass Ackward]

Prices for metals always drop in recessions across the board.

Chinese (government) spending for everything associated with the olympics has been running at 8% of GDP for almost 6 years. How long ago did their market take off? If it started when the funding hit, will the government that didn't spend on the people before that time, keep spending once it's over? Will this affect the stock bubble? Ask the Japanese about 20 years ago.


Jack,

When I pulled in to an NTB store, they had the dumpster in the bay. I asked why? Guy said that their recycler would not accept WW unless they were washed and separated. Guys said, f^@# that. And they don't get paid for hauling them to the junk yard.

It will happen again here when the price doesn't justify recycling cost.

[EMC45]

Got a local source that got some buckets from a battery supplier and the battery guys said that no one was to gety the WWs anymore and that they would pick them all up. I talked to the manager and he said "screw them, they've never done anything for us before. Keep taking them if you want to". I do buy them lunch so they stay happy.

[jack19512]

Jack,

When I pulled in to an NTB store, they had the dumpster in the bay. I asked why? Guy said that their recycler would not accept WW unless they were washed and separated. Guys said, f^@# that. And they don't get paid for hauling them to the junk yard.

It will happen again here when the price doesn't justify recycling cost.




Don't get me wrong nothing would make me happier than if that was to happen but will they have a lead substitute before any of this would come about? :( I haven't heard of anyone having to wash or separate the weights around where I live.

[mike in co]

Ah, there will be a recession by then. And China's economy is going to tank after this August when the olimpics are done. So I figure lead prices will drop to the point where recycling ain't worth the cost. Then they will be throwing it away in the dumpsters again.

Acquire when no one else wants what you do. Goes for stocks, real estate, or lead and GCs. :grin:

china built two of the largest hydro electric plants ever built. that electricity has got to get to the customer.........copper wire for the most part. china also manufactures copper consumer comodities...copper tube etc.
they drove the prices up from around a buck a pound to just over 4 a pound in may of last year.

it aint comming down soon....

i dont know what drove pb up, but it went to just over a buck a pound to.

i aint holding my breath.....

mike
THE COLORADO BRASS COMPANY

[MT Gianni]

china built two of the largest hydro electric plants ever built. that electricity has got to get to the customer.........copper wire for the most part. china also manufactures copper consumer comodities...copper tube etc.
they drove the prices up from around a buck a pound to just over 4 a pound in may of last year.

it aint comming down soon....

i dont know what drove pb up, but it went to just over a buck a pound to.

i aint holding my breath.....

mike
THE COLORADO BRASS COMPANY

They also built a transformer shop to fit the hydro plants. If you want a large transformer new, its coming from China. Gianni

[onceabull]

LME lead futures (30d,60d,6 m, 1 yr,) pricing in U.S.$ virtually identical to Spot price ,looks like consolidating since the spike up in Mid-Jan. fwiw, Onceabull

[mtgrs737]

Made the route yesterday and was dissapointed at the outcome but happy I didn't get skunked. Stopped by at the last two places I have left and netted only 3/4 bucket.

[jack19512]

Stopped by at the last two places I have left and netted only 3/4 bucket.




I would take that any day over just a handfull. :lovebooli