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[troy7769]

Hello all, I was just wondering how much WW are going for in other places compared to here. Best price, worst price, avg. price. From salvage yard, tire store, etc.

I just gave 15 cents/lb. for 200 lbs., from a tire store, did I pay to much? Haven't been to a salvage yard yet.

[3006guns]

Get all you can at that price.......I'm out in Kalifornia and the scrap yard here quoted me .90 lb.

I'll be prying them off wheels around midnight at this rate......................

[gwilliams2]

Recently paid $20. for a 5 gallon bucket overflowing here in South Texas... Probably pretty close to what you paid and I consider that a good deal.

[rockrat]

35 a bucket here, when you can find them

[longhorn47]

I have been shooting Wang lead for a long time 5 dollars a bucket you might want to check with your local Wanges and see if you can get it I do live in Kalifornia and things are very strange here I mean more than usual you go to a scrap yard and asked for lead for bullet casting and it is more money than lead for sinker

[Fugowii]

$30-$35 here (Northeast)

[XWrench3]

$25.00 - $35.00 per 5 gallon bucket. works out to roughly 33 cents a pound. i MAY have a line on a steady supply, @ $0.40 per pound. if i can get them for that, on a regular basis, i will take every last weight he can give me. trying to get w.w's around here has been spotty at best. many months, i have to go without. that does not mean i am without boolits. but i am not gathering any kind of a stock pile at all either. i dont need 1000 pounds laying around. but a couple of hundred would be nice.

[SciFiJim]

check with your local Wanges

I am in CA as well, but never heard of Wanges. What is it?

[oltimer2]

Went to the local scrap yard today to get rid of some copper and asked about WW and pure soft lead.

WW=.55#
Soft=.65#

I must be out of touch as I thought he was high on the $. DAN

[fredj338]

That's such a great price, really. I would buy more, separate & clean them up & sell them in 65# boxes for 50c/# + FR shipping. Pretty soon, we'll be paying more for that out here in Kommifornia.

[desteve811]

$15 a bucket here

[BSkerj]

A dozen doughnuts each at two local tire stores a week, garnishes me 2 five gallon buckets a week. Love it when snow is predicted right before the weekend..they sell alot more tires.
It also helps to give them the business of the fleet of tractors-trailers that I manage.

[Phat Man Mike]

it's getting hard around here to find W/W . one local tire shop sold me a 5 gal bucket for 10.00, the local junk yard want's 5.00 for a coffee can and that's me walking around and pulling them :groner: I've been to the local scrap yard and they ask .90 a pound for soft lead and have no W/W for sale. I think they are making fishing weights and use them [smilie=b:I hope to have found a steady supply of pure lead [smilie=6: but then need to start mixing for hardness .

[Changeling]

How many pounds of clean ingots can you get out of a 5 gallon bucket? This will tell me how much I need to get .

The darn bucket will cost you $5.00 in Maryland before you put the lead in it!

[Axmire]

I must have been lucky. was talking about casting at work and a co-worker said that his dad had 2, 5 gallon buckets, at his house and would trade them to me for 100 .45"s and 100 44's

:)

[Phat Man Mike]

How many pounds of clean ingots can you get out of a 5 gallon bucket? This will tell me how much I need to get .

The darn bucket will cost you $5.00 in Maryland before you put the lead in it!

we weighed the bucket on some scales it was 126 lbs before cleaning up..:wink: hope that helps:hijack:

[fredj338]

I must have been lucky. was talking about casting at work and a co-worker said that his dad had 2, 5 gallon buckets, at his house and would trade them to me for 100 .45"s and 100 44's

:)
Yeah, I'm working a deal for 300# of scrap lead for 200-300grFPGC. Gotta get the lead where you can.:Fire:

[1917]

Many won't sell WW. After a two day search paid 35 cents pound for half a 5 gal (80#), another place $20 for 5 gal bucket full. Some still gave it away. Spent $90 all together netting 3 full 5 gal and 1 full 6 gal bucket full.

[evan price]

Average right now for me is ten cents a pound for bulk unsorted wheel weights. Some places more some less. I have managed to stockpile about 900 pounds of WW.
Been buying all the monotype and foundry type I can find for $1 a pound. Got lucky and picked up about 20# of 90% tin babbitt ingots for fifty cents a pound...!

[Gunslinger]

Lead is getting expensive around these parts as well. I recently traded 200lbs of zinc & steel weights for a lousy 20lbs of pure. I should have taken the money instead....

[HORNET]

'Slinger, You should have checked the prices on scrap zinc. Lots more than scrap WW last time I checked. Of course, pure lead is getting hard to find in some areas.

[klutz347]

Around here (Mid Michigan) I'm paying 25 cents/ lb for all lead from one of the local salvage yards. It doesn't matter if its WW, soft lead or lino, its all the same.

I stopped off at another yard the other day and they wanted 35 cents for lead and 45 cents for WW. Why the price difference I have no idea and the yard guy couldn't tell me either.

[Charlie Sometimes]

Not really about the thread, but related-

I heard that lead was goiong to be pahsed out of WW by sometime in 2010 because of the EPA regulations, etc.

That ought to do wonders for the pricing!

[lwknight]

Todays market price of lead is $1.05
Antimony is around $9.00
Clip-on WW are 3% antimony making them worth $0.30 per pound even if lead was free.
I would be happy to buy 50 cent per pound WW all day long.
Scrappers usually pay less for WW than lead. Its to out advantage that way.

[Cloudpeak]

How many pounds of clean ingots can you get out of a 5 gallon bucket? This will tell me how much I need to get .

The darn bucket will cost you $5.00 in Maryland before you put the lead in it!

From my notes: 5 gallon bucket of WW weighed 140 lbs. I had 36 lbs of waste or 26% and yielded 103 lbs of ingots. I did separate stickons and these are included in the waste along with steel and zinc. I'm getting more waste from later buckets. I had one five gallon bucket that had 40% waste, mostly zinc and steel.

So far, all my WW's have been free. The guy I get the WW's from is a cast bullet shooter so I give him some rendered muffin ingots. A few months ago, he said he has all he needs so I keep everything, now. Life is good.

[TAWILDCATT]

with all the new reloaders and the rest of us mayhap there is a tremendous demand.I can get them free if I can beat out the fishing weight crowd.now I wish I had brought the ton I had when I moved.:coffee:
PS:the club I belong to up north cleaned 13 tons out and the cleaners took it.they have a very active shooters and a reloading room that cant keep up to the lead.

[canebreaker]

The darn bucket will cost you $5.00 in Maryland before you put the lead in it!

Check out walmart and other stores, deli department. Icing comes in 2, 2 1/2, 3 and 5 gallon buckets. Usually will give them to you, along with lids, they may want a dollar or 2. Construstion sites and personel trash for paint and wall mud buckets. Resturants/fast food places for pickle and other buckets. Auto garages for oil, soaps and grease buckets. Laundry mats for soap, dry cleaning fluid buckets. They are free if you look for them. I picked up 7 yesterday that someone threw out. Holes in bottoms, used as planters, plants and soil still in them. I think I have about 150 now, haven't paid for the first. About 40 square 4 gallon kitty litter buckets.

[blaster]

I pay $0.10 a pound and round up to the nearest dollar in each bucket from a tire store. A fairly full bucket usually runs me about $15. I'm going to pick up 5-600lbs tomorrow.

[Matt_G]

I pay a case of Bud Light per bucket full. Works out to about 17 to 18 cents per pound.
That includes my gas to go get them and the propane to melt them.