I went to a tire shop I've been to before but the manager wanted too much for a bucket of wheel weights. Went in to the same shop today and there was a different guy working, he said they had a bunch out back. he wanted $30 per bucket. I worked him down to $25 and I left with what would amount to 14 buckets full. I estimate 2000+ pounds. A couple of the buckets were almost all lead weights! They're still out there! Here's a pic of the score...
Awesome!!
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Very nice. Would you let us know what the final talley is when you finish smelting them?
Nice score! Now the work begins! Hope you get a good yield.
The last few buckets I got were around 65% but they were from a different shop. I bet these will be at least as good just by looking at them. I'll let you know!
Great job!!!
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picked up a few more buckets. should be getting close to 5000 pounds...
gotta raise some more casting funds and go clean out the rest of em... figure there is probably 15,000 pounds sitting there.
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gotta build my stash while I can. hopefully have another 40-50 years of casting left. haha
Nice score! That will give the truck springs a work out.
Getting any shops around here to even talk to you about wheel weights is near impossible. The last time I talked a guy into selling me a few buckets of weights, he was acting like the CIA and FBI were watching him, or it was an illicit drug deal or something.
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This is a good strategy. Lead has already gone from plentiful and free/cheap to harder to get. Scrap yards are being bought by bigger companies and many won't sell to the public. Wheelweights are being made from other material. Plumbers and roofers no longer use lead. The printing industry no longer uses lead type. I agree, Get it while you can.
55 gal steel paint drums make great ingot containers especially with the lid and clamp. Each holds about 2500lbs "stacked" loose in muffin ingots.
I do believe you`ll need more than 2 of those 20 lb. propane tanks to melt that pile! Very nice find with the right guy to talk with.Robert
"Looks like two turkey fryers, 6 bottles of propane, two 60 lb. cast pots and 3 cases of beer will make short work of this little stash! . . .gotta raise some more casting funds and go clean out the rest of em... figure there is probably 15,000 pounds sitting there.
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edit..."Nawh...better quadruple that order!"
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