How much do you pay for WW's??? Hears One 4 U!!

[Greenhorn44]

Went to a Pull-A-Part today Told him I wanted to gather some wheel weights off his Mountain of rims. Told him You-wrench-it down the street just lets me have all i gather. He told me 50 cents a WW, (Yes I said Per WW, 50 cents)
50 CENTS!!!! I said, your outta your mind. His conclusion was he charges 50cents per lugnut, why are wheel weights any different. I said, Have you ever sold 1000 lugsnuts??? He starts back pedaling......LONG Pause..... I about lit in to him for being silly, on a sunny afternoon. But I gathered my thoughts, took a deep breath... and told him alright, I'll take 5 buckets full.
Young buck drops his coffee, coffee goes everywhere!!!
Just Then, My cell phone rings....it's my loving darling wife, I answer... Hello.. hey Bill... 10 buckets... ready to go... good deal, thank you, be right there.

Young buck still standing there. Mouth slawwed open, looking dumbfounded, I look at him and smile. And I say to him, I.... left my wallet in my truck.. I'll be right back...... I walk outside to my truck. Wife calls back, So im standing there on the cell, telling her what I have done, I turn around and see Young buck staring me down like a buzzard on a branch. I open my truck door, pull my wallet outta my center console, put it in my pocket. and shut the door. I turn toward the building, and he's flat gone. Across the yard I see Young buck running out the side of the building holding a empty bucket in each hand, heading towards his retirement
I hope he is still picking off them WW from those puttwood vehicles he's got.
Hope this brought a smile to all yall's faces

So as you all probably guessed, Just bought some WW's today. From a tire store. I know, I know, you'r all right. Hat of to all. I guess I wasnt looking hard enough. And Tired Of Dealing With Junkyards.

So How Much Do You Pay Per Pound Of WW???

Thanks Guys!!! For all your support

[Blammer]

lol that's too funny!

Let him set on them buckets of ww's for a little while and the price will come down really quick.

oh, and I don't pay anything for mine.

[dragonrider]

I've never paid for WW's. Right now I believe I have enough to last the rest of my shooting life.

[outdoorfan]

That was too good!

[Ole]

I have paid anywhere from "a 150lb bucket for free" to $.80/lb for wheel weights.

I have no issue paying for wheel weights. Considering they will be harder to find in the future, they are still a heck of a lot cheaper than buying bullets. I've finally built up a nice stash so I look for good deals only, now-a-days.

[chris in va]

Scrapyard sells mixed WW for $.60/lb. They allow me to pick out the good ones though, but that takes time and looks a little funny sitting on the floor sifting through all that ****.

I *was* getting my WW from a tire store, but a different manager informed me they "return the wheelweights to corporate for recycling". IE, he wasn't interested in selling them to me. Guess I'll have to keep searching.

BTW, do those truck tire stores use lead wheelweights?

[Fugowii]

I guess I am paying around .25/Lb since I pay $30 for a full five gallon bucket of around 125 lbs (usable). More if the mix has a lot of zinc/steel/small weights. I would like to get some for free but that's not going to happen around this neck of the woods.

[462]

I consider myself lucky that I don't have to pay for them. I understand how frustrating it can be, though, as many stores have turned me down. Forget the national, regional, or state-wide stores, as they usually have contracts with recyclers or battery companies. Concentrate on the locally owned Mom and Pop stores. Develop a relationship, with them, in which it is worth their while to give you the weights.

[AKsoldier]

About two weeks ago, I paid $25 for a full 5 gallon bucket of wheel weights from my local tire shop. So far I have smelted about a quarter of the bucket, yielding much more than I expected.


The WW's are VERY low zinc content. I only picked out five or so weights that were not melting as fast as the lead ones. I now feel confident that I can discern lead from zinc. And my first bucket will yield WAY more boolits than I can normally shoot in a year.

I guess it's time to "up the ante"!

[Guesser]

I recently paid 100 bucks for 117 #s of ww and 90 #s of lino smelted into Lyman ingots. Was given 175 #s if sheet lead and 220 Lyman ingots of lead. Sometimes I get ww for free, but I don't ask much any more, I don't think I'll shoot up all I've got.

[Greg in Malad]

400 bullets for each heaping bucket. That is what I give to a friend who works at the tire shop.

[captaint]

Haven't had to pay yet. I did agree to buy my next set of truck tires from the last guy I got WW's from, which will be in a month or so. In fact tonight I got 40lbs of lead pipe from a guy at work. He had it laying around his basement. Like to do that more often. enjoy Mike

[HammerMTB]

BTW, do those truck tire stores use lead wheelweights?

Yes, truck tire stores use lead WWs, and truck tires is one of the few places steel/zinc is not replacing lead- yet, anyway.
I get my WW from a truck tire store. Most of it is from car tires. They gotta sell tires to make money.
I usually pay 2 dozen donuts for all the WW they can scrounge up for me.

[cptinjeff]

Started with some mono, lino, and tin I inherited from my Grandfather who passed away 10 years ago. Was given 148lbs of fishing weights because the hole was too small for the leader. I thought I was going to use em for fishing..but not now. Got my first two full buckets of ww for $10 a little over 2 years ago when I started casting. The next month I scored 550lb of free boat balast in 55lb brick form. The next month I scored 60lb of free boat balast in pellet form. At that point, I thought it was going to be easy!

Over the last two years I was probably turned down 50 times and procured exactly 35lb of WW. Two month's ago I started buying some ww ingots from this forum (110lbs worth so far for under a $1/lb). Two days ago My boss of all people asked me to take his caddie in for some new tires and told me which shop to use as one of his business partners knew the owner. YUP. A free bucket and a promise to get all he has once a month! I hope it works out.

I have enough to hold for me a couple of years at my current rate of 150 lb/year but I won't stop asking because you never know when it will all dry up! Not to mention it just feels like Christmas when you get a fresh batch.

[fredj338]

I've never paid for WW's. Right now I believe I have enough to last the rest of my shooting life.

Indeed you are fortunate. I was getting 100#+ buckets for $20, then the guy had someone come in & pay him $60. No thanks. the last bucket was only about 65% lead, the rest zinc & steel. WW are fast becoming the next item to hard.

[Greenhorn44]

Update on "Young Buck." I guess he caught on quick. Says I owe him 500 bucks for a full bucket. Chuckle, chuckle. Told him I left my wallet in the truck.

[maddog2020]

I just got close to 400 lbs today FREE and was promised the same every two weeks

[AKsoldier]

maddog - thanks alot! You just made everyone else here jealous!

[Greenhorn44]

FREE!!!! Share the wealth

[Firebricker]

That is a good one. FB