Scored on WW last weekend

[Grandpas50AE]

Managed to score on a 5 gal. bucket of WW's last weekend. Local tire dealer where I buy my tires had a bucket full with very little debris in it, and gave it to me free. First time in a few years i haven't had to pay for it. Now to get some smelting done. Oh, and there don't appear to be very many zinc weights.

[Beagle333]

Now that's a perk for ya! :D
My local scrapyard where I find my pure roof flashing and pipes, has several 55gal drums of WW and he said I can play in em and sort out what I want for .65/lb, but it hasn't seemed worth it yet to me. He did say, and I can tell from some preliminary sorting, that they are running about 25% lead ones in the drums.

[40Super]

I get most of my ww from two local recyclers @$.04/lb, I am able to pick through and only take what I want so I have gotten a couple pails of 2oz and greater weights with only a couple steel ones that sneeked in. 2 of the pails was from a very old barrel and the weights in it were probably made in the 50's-70's, I kept all of them seperate. Some 9mm bullets I made with them I water dropped and they ended up aprox 30bhn after 2 weeks,too hard.Good alloy though.

[762 shooter]

Did you mean $0.40 cents? 4 cents/pound is cheap.

762

[40Super]

Yes .40 cents per lb.(misplaced the 0). It comes out at a good price concidering a 120lb bucket yeilds 110-115lbs of lead.

[runfiverun]

the older ww's had more antimony than the new ones.
from the 50-70's the antimony content was about 6%

[40Super]

That why I made sure to keep them seperate and smelted them seperate, plus marked them. I even have several "brands" of ww seperated and marked. I've noticed some casting and hardness differences that way also. If I could just get an anylizer so I know the makeup of them I could adjust alloys with them. No junkyard or recycler around me has one, or won't admit to it so I can get them tested. To send them to Rotometals the cost isn't worth it.