Scored a drum of wheel weights!

[OldBearHair]

I was worried about you tying up your trailer for a long time, but wow, you are already finished with the job.. Well done.

[frkelly74]

How much zinc do you think there was? Would it pay to render it to ingot form I wonder? It is worth more than mixed steel scrap certainly I would think.

[Burnt Fingers]

Last fall I took in all my metal scrap. I was surprised to find that I had 1100 lbs of steel and 400 lbs of zinc from all the wheel weights I've sorted in the past couple of years. While I was there I looked in the brass barrel. There was a BUNCH of .44 Mag brass and .45 ACP brass. I learned a long time ago to take my shellshorter.com baskets with me to the scrap yard. I ended up with over 700 pieces of .44 Mag brass and about 4 gallons of .45 ACP brass. $1.50 a lb.

While sorting the brass I noticed a barrel of wheel weights. It was about 3/4 full. I took a good hard look and sorted some of what I could see. It was obvious that it had come from a shop that serviced big trucks as there were some heavy weights in there. I asked about the price and it was $0.50 a lb. Scrap lead was $1.00 a lb.

I purchased the barrel. The weight was 900 lbs. My total lead score from that thing was 799 lbs. Very little zinc. Some iron. Not enough stick-on to worry about separating it.

My wife was mad because I spent the money but I was happier than all get out.

[lightman]

Nice Score!

I save my reject brass to sell as scrap. I guess I need to smash it first. I would hate for another reloader to buy it thinking he could use it. Its probably not a problem here because the scrap yards won't sell to the public.

[Froogal]

There are no actual scrap yards around here. The best I can do is individual tire shops. I visited one a couple of years ago. He had a 5 gallon bucket about 1/2 full of wheel weights. I asked for a price, and he said just take them. I brought them home, sorted them, and less than 1/2 of that bucket was actual lead WW. I did make a couple of ingots, but it was hardly worth the effort. The least expensive way for me to get lead for casting boolits is to just buy it.

[durango]

How much zinc do you think there was? Would it pay to render it to ingot form I wonder? It is worth more than mixed steel scrap certainly I would think.

I've sold zinc right here on cast boolits for $1.00/lb.-about 17 lbs. IIRC. Evil bay will bring much more--3-$10/lb. if you want to mess with it, but ingots should be of a shape to be bolted onto a surface. Steve