Is $70 per bucket of wheel wieghts the going rate?

[fireguy715]

I stopped by a tire shop today that has several 5 gallon buckets full of wheel old wheel weights. He want's $70 per bucket and said he fills about one a month. Is that a fair price? About how many pounds of useable lead is that? Thanks

[DHurtig]

Way too high...............Dale

[muskeg13]

I paid 0.70 per pound week before last in Anchorage, Alaska. That's up a nickle a pound for wheel weights I paid 2 years ago, but these were cleaner with less zinc and iron weights. I only had 8 percent weight lost to dross, zinc weights and steel clips on the batch smelted 2 years ago.

[Bwana]

A fair price? I don't know. That is twice what I pay for a bucket full. I end up with about 85 lbs of ingots.

[Suo Gan]

No, not a good price at all.

[darkroommike]

I stopped by a tire shop today that has several 5 gallon buckets full of wheel old wheel weights. He want's $70 per bucket and said he fills about one a month. Is that a fair price? About how many pounds of useable lead is that? Thanks

The fact that he has several buckets available and only fills one bucket a month tells me his prices are high for the local market. Offer to take them ALL for $35 per bucket.

[Blammer]

tell him you'll give him a 12 pack per bucket full.

$70 is way to high IMO

[Floydster]

For $70 a bucket, he will have them for a long time--if you go back there, ask him if you get a kiss with that price

Smokeyloads

[possom813]

I'd happily pay $70 for a full 5 gallon bucket. I pay $50 for about a half bucket at a time and no tire shops sell them around here that I can find, I have to buy from the scrap dealer at 70 cents per pound.

I usually end up with about 60lbs of ingots.

[cbrick]

Yikes! He must be mighty proud of them weights.

I would hate to say don't buy'em if that's your only game in town but I would certainly shop aroud before buying them.

How much lead you would get depends on the weights, I have gotten between 50 pounds per bucket to 165 pounds but that was for pre-sorted truck weights that he intended to re-use till the lead weights were banned. It's the only bucket of weigths I ever had to pay for and I gave $20.00 for that. My average is probably between 80 & 100 pounds per bucket.

Rick

[imashooter2]

What a bucket of WW are worth is entirely dependent on how much alloy you currently have in stores and what your prospects are for more at a lower price.

[762 shooter]

As said before, You can get alloy from here for around $1 a pound shipped and you do not have to sort, smelt, stink, or sweat. Only your Postman has to sweat.

[jethunter]

Prices are relative and depends on your prospects - how hard is it to get lead or ww in that area.

If you don't have anything in hand and lead is hard to come by - then it's not a bad price. Offer him something lower. If lead and or ww are plentiful and easy to find and you already have some in hand then it's not a good price at all.

[Bassmaster]

I guess it really is all about the area....some places are just happy to get rid of them...$70 is insane

[RobS]

I will second with netting about 85 lbs to maybe 100 lbs (if the bucket is older and has less metal and zinc weights) from a 5lbs bucket these days. As been said as well, you can get about $1 per pound delivered here on the swappin and sellin section and they are already smelted down.

[Wilkie]

Here in Utah there is a guy who sells ingots for $.80 a pound.

[HighHook]

Show up on a Friday afternoon with a 30 pack of beer for that bucket and see what he says.

[zuke]

Way too high for my taste's

[Doc Highwall]

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http://www.rotometals.com/Bullet-Casting-Alloys-s/5.htm

[mold maker]

I sure hope I never have to pay that much. If I were out and needed some quick, it might be a solution.