I gave up looking for wheel weights 3 years ago, I only had two shops left. One shop closed, the other sold. I lost my connection at the sold one. Well fast forward, the owner of the "sold" shop contacted me, via Facebook, that her husband had opend a new shop and had a bucket for me. It came out at 100 lbs. So here is the composition of the new bucket:
Iron (Fe) 40%
Clip on (Pb) 30%
Stick on (Pb) 20%
Zinc (Zn) 9%
Trash 1%
Not the greatest but free.
You must have made a good impression on them. Congrats, Free lead is always good.
50 lbs for free, good lead, is not bad
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That's actually better than average % of lead for this day and age. Congrats.
If worse comes to worse, I'll try casting zinc. I've read that it needs no lube and by composition can't lead......
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Nice Score. Free lead is always welcome.
350,000 grains....use them any way you wish. That's a lot of boolits.
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50% lead is pretty good yield imo
I pay 30 a bucket round here for buckets consisting of 50%
50% isn't bad now days but I would hate to have paid for it.
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I agree that free is always better than cost outlay. The break down of the pail is about the same as my last free pail from a car dealer. I told him that I don`t want any more pails of weights. My reasons are I have 5 1/2 full and over flowing pails of sorted weights waiting to be smelted, that I already have over 300 lbs. in ingots and I have close to 700 lbs. of tracer shielding unsmelted. On top of all that are my hard leads and soft leads that totals about 1 ton total. The final kicker is my failing health and doing less shooting and casting. Good score on your weights.Robert
I hope you can improve in health, I hear this too much on the forum...well, it's all part of life but ever so real when your long in the tooth like so many of us are.
Concentrate on that Pb stash and make it expire first!
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Yeah, so do I. According to Walter Laigh's poll, most casters are older guys. And older guys, well, get old. I guess its just part of the process?
i would say that that is about the average proportions i get, but i only have one tire shop connection, and i never get anywere near 100lbs, it is usually 35-40 and i end up with 20 in coww and maybe 2-3lbs in soww, so i guess my percentage is a bit better. one reason it is that light is i try to go every 3-4 months, because there is competition lurking, in fact i think i stole this connection from a guy that made dive weights and sold them. the guys at the shop must prefer to give them to someone who really uses and needs them.
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My yields are still holding up a little better than that. I just had a small score, about the time photo bucket dumped me, but have not learned how to post pictures on another site yet.
WW have pretty much all but dried up availability wise in my area. Atleast to the point where your time is better rewarded seeking other avenues of getting lead. Last place I tried guy said he scraps it all do to environmental reasons. So unless I see a craigslist listing for a bucket every know and then. My days of cheap WWs are over.
I picked up a 5gal bucket, about 2/3's full a day or so ago. got them sorted out and ended up with 65# of raw coww, a large handful of soww, 14# of steel and zinc, and hardly any trash. I'm planning to go back in a couple of months, it's a small repair shop.
So as not to start a similar thread I would like to ask a question. I have a scrap yard willing to sell WW for 25 cents a lb or clean lead for 75 cents a lb. I have never bought scrap before. Which of the two would you guys suggest?
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