What are scrap yards paying for lead?

[500MAG]

Does anyone know what the approximate price Scrap yards are [B]Paying[B] for lead or wheel weights? I put an ad in craigslist to buy scrap lead and the local yards don't open till Monday and I'm already getting responses.:holysheep

[turmech]

last I called them (couple months ago) I think I was told they were paying .45 per lb

[Huskerguy]

If it is still on the wheel weights they only want to give 10 cents around here. They would give more, I think up to 30 cents if it is melted into ingots.

[tomme boy]

25 cents on the clip. 35 if it is melted. They list it as hard lead. 52 cents for soft. This what they pay. They will not sell.

[DHurtig]

Local yard here sells lead at .45 a #. I think they are paying about a quarter. Dale

[turmech]

at thoses prices be worth trucking them to MD for .45

[evan price]

Wheel weights in natural form are buying at 15 cents a pound, a bit more for large qty.
Other lead is 30 cents a pound.

[SlowSmokeN]

.10 hard lead (lino / WW) .15 soft lead. They sell it for .75

The lino they sell for $2 a pound.

[Paints-n-cows]

I just bought some lead today. It was sitting in a very large cardboard box and they didn't care what I took out of there for 70 cents/lb.

There were some very large ingots in there and a few of the large ingots had been cut down with a chainsaw. I'm not sure what composition the cutup ones were so I left them and just took what I knew for sure being the lead sheeting.

One of the large pieces was about 6"x6"x36" and another was about 15" x 3" x 24" so I imagine they were extremely heavy and I am not sure how I would handle them let alone try to melt them down.

[mdevlin53]

I paid .43/Lb today.The scrapyard had a 275 gallon tank with the side cut out. Mostly sheetlead but they had some diving weights and other lumps and stuff. Bought 70#s for about 30 bucks.
In Hudson Valley NY

[340six]

was told they but at 30-35 cents raw on the clips. I said no I want to buy they said 50-60 cents

[pistolman44]

I bought some from a scrap yard a couple of months ago for .25 lb.

[Jens]

i was at scap yard yesterday they were paying .12 a pound and selling for .80

[H.Callahan]

Just picked up a quick 40 pounds of WW for 50¢/lb. No clue what they are paying for them as I always make withdrawals, never deposits!

[472x1B/A]

Stopped at Progress ( Division of Cat ) to check on scrap prices. Shreadder was $160-ton, prepared $210- ton. Lead is$.30-lb to sell and$.70-lb to buy.

[StaTiK]

I live in SoCal and called a scrapyard today to try to BUY lead (no deal, BTW). The guy misunderstood me and quoted me a price of $0.03/lb. And he wouldn't sell to me at any price.

-StaTiK-

[rmark]

Buy 10 cents, sell 20 cents. I sold enough brass to pay for half of the 200 lb of mixed pipe and sheet lead they had.

[thompsonm1a1]

i am some glad i get my ww for free all i have to do is show up to the shop and clean them up. my stock pile is about 800 lb of ww bars.

[Down South]

Had a buddy that had 1,200 lbs of sheet lead from an X-ray room. He said the scrap yard offered him .50 per lb. I saved him a trip to the scrap yard.