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Scrap lead smelting for finished ingot trade value?
Looking for some insight if this would be a worthwhile idea to pursue. I have access to lots of bullet splatter range scrap. Its basically 100% handgun bullet splatter, pretty clean, not much in the way of dirt mixed in, some copper jackets etc. I would love to smelt this down and try casting but there is just no way I could possibly find the time to do it. If I provided the lead for someone already set up to smelt, what would be a reasonable deal to work out. Perhaps whatever weight in scrap I provide, get back 1/2 of it in clean ingots? Or would that be way off base?
I would probably need to find someone fairly local to do this to make sense but if its not worth pursuing I will go on to my next great idea.
Guess I should add, right now I have collected about 150lbs of scrap, if thats not enough to get started I could probably have another 100lbs or more collected in the next month or two pretty easily.
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