went to the scrap yard today

[00buck]

I took some scrap metal to the scrap yard today to cash in.. while waiting for my ticket I spy buckets of wheel weights lined up by the wall. :) mmmmm

I asked if they would sell me some wheel weights.. they say sure. :) mmmmm

$1 a pound :( HUH??? I tell them I can buy clean lead for $1 a pound. :P

wangers

[GlocksareGood]

Just bought 266lbs of wheel weights for $0.35/lb yesterday. They also had saved me 7 lbs of Pewter. That cost me another $7. Keep looking you may find green pastures.

[Miller]

Somebody in your area must be willing to pay that price.

[00buck]

.35 cents a pound sounds fair to me. I may go back and see if I can talk to the person in charge.

I have an ample supply of ingots now..but its hard to pass up on more lead :) .

The day of the "free" WW's is no more around my parts. I'm grateful for getting all I did when I did.

[quiver]

I have the same problem here 00buck. Got a local srap yard that will buy them for $0.20/lb and sell for $1.00 a pound. I got around that problem with a want ad in the paper. Though, on refection now I think I'd go with craigslist now. With that said I noticed a new yard in town. Need to go check them out sometime and see if they're better than the other one.

[DRNurse1]

I tried the $0.35 per pound offer and haggled to $0.43 per pound for about 200# mixed clip on and stick on WW. The folks said com on back in a month, the should have more. I will sort the lode first to see if it was worth it.

[ACrowe25]

My local place had some pulled off old tires. Asked how much... He said that's 100 lbs (1.75 full 5 gallon buckets. He then said .30/lb... So $30. I said fair enough and tried to lift the bucket lol. Felt like a girl until I came home and weighed them.... 245 lbs! Barely any Fe/Zn not even enough to cover the bottom of a 5gal.

[sqlbullet]

I would guess the $1.00/lb was a starting point to negotiate. The jaw drop price. Hit them back with your own outrageous price...Say 5¢/lb. When they laugh, ask them if they want to haggle on a reasonable price or should you continue to each just make ludicrous offers.

[John Boy]

oo - what scrap yard in Jersey was it for a buck a pound? So if I drive by I can just give them the finger!
I get Grade C sheet lead (pure) at the yards in Ocean County, Toms River & Brick, for 65 to 75 cents a lb

[lmfd20]

78¢/lb here for mixed ww. I told them that I could buy clean lead ingots shipped to my door for $1-$1.15/lb and they just said okay.

[RG1911]

The one scrap place in town (Colorado Springs) that would *sell* scrap, and that kept an inventory, has gone to buying only, and not keeping an inventory. I had been able to get pure tin for $8 per pound and 63/37 solder bars for, I think, $2 per pound.

I gave up buying used COWW from tire stores because of the increasingly large percentage of zinc and steel weights. Way too much time spent testing and sorting.

The only response to a Craigslist want ad was from a person who had a couple pallets of "tin" cans.

Looks like it's fleaBay time.

Richard

[saphelps]

Thanks for the post. I was going to hit the Colo Springs yards and try to grab some. Guess that's a trip saved.

[RG1911]

Yeah. I even checked the big recycling center in/near Fountain. I may check to see if there's anything in Denver.

Richard

[ACrowe25]

I paid .30 for "100lbs"

That "100lbs" weighed in at 238 lbs last week. Less than 2 handfuls of Zn/Fe.

'Twas a good day.

[saphelps]

H&H Tires in fountain has a shed full of wheel weights. When I inquired I was told he will sell to highest "bidder." I was going to go in once I get back from a family trip mid next week and see how low I could start and what the sale price would be. Anything over .45 will be easier to just order boxes of 6-ouncers new (much cleaner and no zinc/steel).

[Epd230]

I talked to a scrap yard guy a few months back before he knew I was interested in the ww he said that he gets paid .35/lb when he sells them up the line.

I offered him .40 and he didnt have to worry about delivery. He then refused to sell them to me when I told him that I was going to make bullets.

.........should have gone with the sinker excuse!

[00buck]

I always tell them I'm making sinkers.. then they just grin at me :D

[wistlepig1]

I tell them I am doing stain glass bedding. Most don't know what that is and make the sale. I use the fishing sinkers to. I think it's funny that they will buy man hole cover, back flow preventors and more that was most likely stolen but will not sell lead to make bullits. Go figure!:roll: