what would you pay for wheel weights ?

[Boaz]

What is the most you would pay for a 5 gal bucket of wheel weights at a tire shop ?

[Bullshop Junior]

25¢ a pound.

[dg31872]

Last week I paid twenty cents per pound, I load and yes, it is mixed lead and junk.

[plmitch]

One dozen donuts........

[Boaz]

One dozen donuts........

LOL ! I wish that were true in my area but I checked this morning and the scrap yards are giving 30 cents a pound , none of those deals around me anymore .

[thompsonm1a1]

in my area ww are not a problem to get or buy cheap with very little junk. soft lead is the problem as I have to work a bit harder to get the stuff for making ml bullets. the ml season starts in 2 weeks. there are several old homes that are going to be torn down in the near future and there is a bit of lead around the chimneys that I hope to get.

[dragon813gt]

$0, I still get them for free. Once that stops I'm done w/ wheel weights. If I'm going to pay it will be for a known clean alloy. Wheel weights are not worth the time, effort and gas to clean them up if I have to pay for them.

[SteveS]

If I were desperate I might go as high as $0.50/lb but the scrap yards are paying $0.30 around here.

[mold maker]

Pay what ya have to, in order to not run out. Remember not all the price increase, is for the lead. Your money is worth lots less now, and the lead WWs are getting scarce.
While I was lots more able, I saw the writing, on the wall and stock piled, all I could get. Now I shoot less and at 72, it will outlast me. I feel your pain, but it's not too late to lay in a supply.

[Sghinds]

I was also curious about this. I am starting late in the game, and will probably start looking around my area for a supply while I can find them.

[clearcut]

I just pd. .19 lb for some old diving weights $8 for 42 lb . I found 15 lb under a old house in the cast iron waste plumbing.CC

[Rottweiler]

A box of donuts max.Not worth the time, expense and trouble otherwise. That being said my current lead reserves is just over 6 tons.


If I have to pay for them I'll buy pre-alloy'd ingots.

[cdngunner]

Up here scrap value is $0.35/lb if there is "competition" expect to pay more.

[Geezer in NH]

Large 3 topping pizza

[Hardcast416taylor]

I was "gifted" with a 3/4 full 5 gal. pail yesterday at a car dealership where a buddy of mine is manager. I offered him doughnuts or some cash for the weights. He simply said, "just get `em oughta here"! This old man couldn`t get the pail out of my vehicle, so I tipped it over and emptied it that way. Robert

[Outpost75]

Here we check the American Metal Market " yellow sheets".for the current price the scrap yards pay. Weoffer $0.10 per pound more than the board market price, then offer to pick up, rather than the shop having to deliver to the scrap yard. Last batch we bought was $500/ton.

[flyingmonkey35]

35 bucks per bucket



That one was 133 pounds

So round up to 26 cents a pound_ish

[sawzall]

Around here, the tire shops want $50 a pail for them and there is a lot of garbage and steel in them. No thanks I say! Last pail of wheel weights I processed I only got about 70lb of lead from a full 5 gallon bucket. Over 40lb were steel weights and the rest were zinc and garbage like stickers and valve stems.

[MaryB]

40 cents a pound but they have to sort them out to get rid of junk and iron and anything marked ZN

[waltherboy4040]

20-30 a bucket, shops seem to be happy to have it gone.