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Thread: I gave in on lead

  1. 02-14-2007, 03:11 AM #1
    jdhenry
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    I gave in on lead

    I give up on ww. Im tired if the same old anwser. So I ran an ad in the paper and got 585 lbs of mix scrap. for about .34 cents a pound. Its a bit more than I wanted to spend but Im hooked and the 240 lbs I started with is going Quick. So I figured what the heck I get 44 boolits for .34 cents. That Aint bad. So I am JEALOUS of you guys that get it for .14 cents a pound. But I'll be good for awhile. So I tell the wife.....HE,HE Still with the lead I have now I ONLY have about 36,500 Boolits HMMMMMMMMM I think I need to run another ad or 10

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  2. 02-14-2007, 05:38 AM #2
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    .............Crap! I never thought of running an add!

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  3. 02-14-2007, 05:51 AM #3
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  4. 02-14-2007, 03:42 PM #4
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    yep, Don, I can remember when I KNEW every thing and was invincible. Now I'm just old feeble and fragile! What happened??
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  5. 02-14-2007, 05:39 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by jhalcott View Post
    yep, Don, I can remember when I KNEW every thing and was invincible. Now I'm just old feeble and fragile! What happened??

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  6. 02-14-2007, 06:22 PM #6
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    I recently scored 240 lbs of dead soft lead for my 1860 Armys. 60 lb ingots from a defunct aerospace company. they called it "grid metal". I've been told that one indication of pure lead is when it casts with a purple haze. This does. Less than 30 cents/lb.
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  7. 02-15-2007, 02:18 AM #7
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    When I was a kid way back when in the Ozarks I used to dig chunks of raw lead out of the ground, had a lot of lead mines there. I remember it was kind of crystalline, and when you split a piece it was a beautiful purple rainbow color until the air got to it and it oxidized.

    Kinda wish I still had some of that property these days, a lead mine would be handy.
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