I was worried about you tying up your trailer for a long time, but wow, you are already finished with the job.. Well done.
I was worried about you tying up your trailer for a long time, but wow, you are already finished with the job.. Well done.
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.
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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.
NRA Benefactor.
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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.
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.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |