Lead prices

[Beekeeper]

Yesterday I took the alum cans and brass to the recycler.
Seems like every time I go there it costs me money!

He had 1000 pounds of pure sheet lead (X-Ray room sheating) for sale.
Has a paper backing on it.
Bought the whole thing for $.80 a lb.
I think that was a good price but thought I would ask the membership.
Either way at 78 years old I am set for life as I already had 1000 lbs of mixed lead.

Did I do good or bad?


beekeeper

[TES]

kinda high. Pure lead should be around .50 considering you can buy bullet alloy (11 BHN) here for a buck. To get the pure to a decent hardness is going to make that an expensive venture after paying for the propane.

[Dusty Bannister]

Kinda hard to get bullet alloy to a decent softness with out nearly pure lead. Lots of trade stock if you need bullet alloy. Scrap prices are pretty regional so "bullet alloy here for a buck a pound" sure is not very informative, if no one knows where "here" is.

[Beagle333]

If you shoot pure, you did good.
I see lots of BP guys who would love to buy pure, even with the paper on it, for a buck + ship.
I don't know if you'd want to bother with smelting it for em, for just a .20 profit.

[Garyshome]

Hey you did good. With a little effort you can have some shoot able stuff. I might be tempted to buy some of that for that price myself.

[bangerjim]

I think you did good! I am happy to get lead at $1/#. Most of what I buy these days is alloy, but pure is good to find also.

Good luck finding lead for 0.50 a pound almost anywhere these days! There are many on here that would be GLAD to pay your price to even find any!
And you are on the left coast!!!!!!! Careful of those tree kissers, owl huggers, and nasty lead-eating condors! :roll:

I gave up on "free" WW's several years ago. I blend all my alloys now.

banger

[djgoings]

Here in Vermont lead is $0.80/# and wheel weights are $0.55/#.

[dbosman]

I say you made a good deal.
Sheet lead can be used, swapped, sold, swaged, or put up on the walls of your man cave to keep cell phones from working.
I particularly like it as WWs of any kind are scarce in my area. With sheet lead its easy to make up to what I want instead of thinning an unknown alloy down.

[MUSTANG]

Sheet lead cast into ingots would be of interest to Swagers on this site, either as a trade or a sale.

[runfiverun]

I think you done just fine.
1 you have lead.
2 that price for an absolutely known alloy is superb.
3 you have lead.

[btroj]

Did well. You have lead and that is always a good thing.

[GlocksareGood]

I pay $0.80/lb for clean lead on the right coast so you did just fine.

[lwknight]

80 cents for good clean lead. Yup. You did good.

[bob208]

you did real good. if you want to sell it just contact a n-ssa team. they need pure lead for mini balls.

[Smoke4320]

you did good.. know pure lead and in Commifornia too !!

[a.squibload]

...is not very informative, if no one knows where "here" is.

Probably means here on Castboolits in Swappin & Sellin section.

[WILCO]

I think you done just fine.
1 you have lead.
2 that price for an absolutely known alloy is superb.
3 you have lead.

Yep. Plus one to this.

[cali4088]

I think you did good! I am happy to get lead at $1/#. Most of what I buy these days is alloy, but pure is good to find also.

Good luck finding lead for 0.50 a pound almost anywhere these days! There are many on here that would be GLAD to pay your price to even find any!
And you are on the left coast!!!!!!! Careful of those tree kissers, owl huggers, and nasty lead-eating condors! :roll:

I gave up on "free" WW's several years ago. I blend all my alloys now.

banger

I agree, I buy lead in the thousands of lbs and I get lucky hen someone has a couple hundred lbs of lead for .60, and that here and there. He did good for $1 a lb.

[40-82 hiker]

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Yesterday I took the alum cans and brass to the recycler.
Seems like every time I go there it costs me money!

He had 1000 pounds of pure sheet lead (X-Ray room sheating) for sale.
Has a paper backing on it.
Bought the whole thing for $.80 a lb.
I think that was a good price but thought I would ask the membership.
Either way at 78 years old I am set for life as I already had 1000 lbs of mixed lead.

Did I do good or bad?


beekeeper

[762nato]

Just got a quote for pure lead @ $3 / lb and $3.50 for # 2 alloy. Things are not cheap in Canada

[BNE]

I think you done just fine.
1 you have lead.
2 that price for an absolutely known alloy is superb.
3 you have lead.

He forgot #4 - You got 1,000 pounds of lead!!

I paid that a year ago for "soft" lead. (in SC) It was not as pure as you picked up.

[Beesdad]

X-room lead is selling for .50/ lb. in this area. It is priced the same as all scrape lead other than CWW which sale for .35/lb.

[Bogone]

I paid .35 for mixed wheel weights. I'll bet the recovery was not even 50%......

[40-82 hiker]

I paid .35 for mixed wheel weights. I'll bet the recovery was not even 50%......

Just a thought, at least it's what I do:

When you have to buy mixed weights find out what the local recyclers pay for buckets of MIXED wws, then offer that. A couple of months ago it was around 25 cents in many places, according to friends of mine.

I wouldn't feel too bad about a final net of 70 cents per pound, though. After losing around 15% to clip weight, etc., you're still only at 82 cents per pound, or 2.3 cents per boolet for a 200 gr. .45 SWC for example. Might be a little high for the lead wheel weights by some standards, but $2.30 per hundred for this example is still cheap shootin'. You can always look for a better deal, but you're shootin' in the meantime. Got to keep things in perspective...

Happy shootin' and lead mining.