Quote Originally Posted by Scorpion8 View Post
Posted a local want-ad for lead ballast plates, and only got one reply. Except the dude had 190# of lead in a single block. Zoikes! Besides my initial shock, he wanted $2/#. So my question is, does that sound like a fair price, and how easy is it to reduce that block to manageable sizes? Sawzall with metal blade? Pocket knife?
I helped a race car buddy chop of his ballast with a sawzall, use the metal coarse blade and a lot of wd-40 for cutting fluid. As we sliced it up I could see different types of metal, slag, junk, etc all dumped in for 'ballast weight' so I wouldn't consider it a good source for casting bullets with. $2 a lb is nuts, that is literally the same price as PREMIUM certified alloy from rotometals.