Friends, guy I work with gave me some sheet lead.
Said a buddy of his is a contractor and salvaged this.
I'm thinking dentists office or something?
Well what I am wondering is, that stuff is almost pure soft lead like water pipe or stick on wheel weights?
Guy has a couple more of those rolls that he said he wouldn't attempt to load by his self.
Trouble is, it's a 3 hour drive to where they are and I have no other business there or I would have them already.
3 hour drive or not, ypu need to go get them. Now.
Figure cost at about $1 per lb. for pure soft lead, the distance traveled is half the fun of getting this for free! Jump in the van or truck and go get it! Figure you can sell some of it to defray costs.Robert
Pure lead. Could be sheathing for an x-ray room or the pan for a bathtub or shower. I'd drive three hours to get it. Love pure lead = got some BHN 6, 8 and 10 I'll trade ya.
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Well, I'll be the stick in the mud... 3 hours drive one way? For how much weight? Less than 500 pounds and I wouldn't start the car.
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I got some sheeting in the same manner you described. Very nice lead. Mine was glued to sheet rock initially, so there was some leftovers still affixed and had to burn off when I melted it into ingots. That makes a nasty smoke, so make sure you have a good outdoor area for ingot-making.
Other than that, pretty easy stuff to work with. I got just shy of 400lbs of it and would happily go 3 hours to get a big pile of more of it if I had that opportunity!
Three hour drive... that's about 50 bucks in gas for me.... yep, if it's too much for him to lift, I'd spend an afternoon and go after it.
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Shielding lead is considered near pure. Sometime it has a bit of Sb for stiffness (not enough to worry about), but I treat it as pure.
Depending on your "need" and $$ situation, getting it is well worth the time, gas, and travel. I always get pure when the chance pops up as it is the main % basis of all the alloy mixes we know and love!
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I drive 3 hours just to get to work.
a hundred [plus] pounds of lead?
I'd not even have spent the time typing the question here and would have went and got it already.
Plus, us black powder guys really prize pure lead for our frontstuffers. The pile of sheeting lead I got is now all made into ingots, and once I settle on a ball size for my flintlock, I'll turn a few of those ingots into balls to run through my rifle.
Always have my eyes open for other opportunities and pure (or near pure) lead. I figure it doesn't spoil and won't get cheaper, so get it when the getting's good!
Meister, here's a good read for you that includes sheet lead hardness. Book mark it for future reference
http://www.lasc.us/castbulletalloy.htm#UNS
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Geez, I'd be back already and trying to figure where I'm gonna stash my new treasure!
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Beagle, what kind of tank do you drive????!!!!!?????Granted, hauling a load back would take more gas but my pickup would still do it for under $50.
Ok, Meister Mash, if you're dragging your anchor, where is this bonanza?
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Must be real nice to say you would pass it by if less than 500 lb.! You must live in the quicksand area of Pa near NY.Robert
I'm down by the Philly airport.
A lost day, plus gas (probably tolls) and wear and tear on the car... Everyone makes choices. Maybe if I didn't have anything on the shelf I'd feel different.
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He's not alone. I wouldn't bother for less than a quarter ton either. A two hour drive one way is about the max I'd go for a few hundred pounds. This puts me in the Poconos or a little past Harrisburg. It's not that expensive to order certified alloy from a foundry. But you do need over $1k because you're ordering half a ton minimum.
I got a 2007 Tundra SR5. It gets 18mpg. I was basing that on my trips to see Mom. It takes me 3 hours to get there (he said "it's a 3 hour drive to where they are") and a round trip burns 50+ bucks. Not sure how many miles it is, but it's right at 200 each way. (and that isn't hauling a quarter ton of lead one way)Beagle, what kind of tank do you drive????!!!!!?????
Still.... worth a few hundred pounds of lead.
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If you spend $50 in gas and get 500 lbs. then you are talking about 10 cents a pound. There some downside to that great deal that I'm not seeing?
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I got a '79 chevy pickup, gets about 2 gallons to the mile. I would take a hatchet and drive three hours ANY day for 100lbs of pure sheet like that. Anything more is a bonus. And considering what sheet lead will sell for in S&S? I understand everybody has to make a choice, but I know what my choice would be.
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