Dead soft lead is available in the West valley at $0.50/lb

I found a guy out in Glandale that has a few skids of cable with lead sheathing in about 3 foot hunks. He's selling the stripped sheathing for $0.50/lb. Its pretty clean stuff. I hit a piece of it with a Lee hardness tester & the spot measured 90+, which is off the bottom of the chart on the hardness listing. I think that it is safe to call this stuff dead soft.

I grabbed just a little bit, since I don't really use dead soft for much of anything. If anyone want's the guys name & phone number, just PM me & I'll send it to you. It looked like he had a good 3 or 4 thousand pounds of the stuff still waiting to be stripped & one or two guys working on it depending on how busy they were with other stuff.