WW for $0.39 a pound good deal?

[Sgtonory]

Have the chance to buy WW for .39 a pound and have the ability to sort the ww at the scrap yard. There is more there than i could sort in a few hrs. My question is dose anyone melt down zinc and sell it or should i buy smaller lots that i can sort at the yard? Thanks

[454PB]

For that price, load all you can afford and sort them at home. Shady Grady will buy whatever zinc you come across.

[mikeym1a]

When I can get them at the salvage yard, they are .50/lb here. getting scarier all the time. Not so much that they aren't used, many of the tire store won't sell to individual and send them to the salvage yards, and several of them in the area won't sell to private citizens.

[whelenshooter]

About a month ago I was able to by lead ingots and 'bars' for $.70 locally at a scrap yard. Going back tomorrow to get a little more. WW at $.39 sounds good to me. Free is better of course.

David

[Sgtonory]

For that price, load all you can afford and sort them at home. Shady Grady will buy whatever zinc you come across.

Thats what i am thinking. Sounds like i can get at least 1k pounds. That plus all the range scrap i will be a smelting fool.

[w0fms]

I'd take all I could get for that price...

[fredj338]

If they let you sort them, worth it for sure at that price. You can visually sort for the most part, takes very little time to go thru a 5gal/120# bucket. The few zinc can be tossed or stashed to be traded later.

[jsizemore]

I'd sort at the yard. shadygrady will trade you straight up zinc for lead ww's, but you have the cost of shipping added. Not all the ww's are zinc and you'll have paid $.39/lb for steel. The yard in my area pays $.15/lb for steel.

[dbosman]

Take a kid or buddy or both, with you to help sort.
It will be worth dinner or a bottle of something for the extras.
Jump on WWs when you can. If you don't, the next person will.

[GlocksareGood]

Between myself and a buddy we have bought 2 tons of wheel weights in the last 9 months at $0.35/lb. Most were already sorted to remove the steel. We would average 2-3% Zinc across most of it.

[Dale53]

If you buy a large quantity from the scrap yard, ask if you can sort at home, return the zinc or steel ones for weight credit on more wheelweights. They might just go for it. Understand, you'll be MUCH more credible to the yard, if you take, say, 1000 lbs. as opposed to say, 10 lbs.

FWIW
Dale53

[bob208]

yes good price. would ne better if you could sort there. or sort and take back what is not usable.

[MTtimberline]

For that price, load all you can afford and sort them at home. Shady Grady will buy whatever zinc you come across.

This is what I would do as well. Not a bad price today. I've been setting my zinc aside and I'll see if Shady Grady would be interested in a trade some day.

[jetsfan-24]

I pm,d shady grady and he said he was out of lead did,nt know if he would get more lead in for trade but was open to trading lino-tin-powder-mono-ect

[frankenfab]

For that price, load all you can afford and sort them at home. Shady Grady will buy whatever zinc you come across.


Yup, I wouldn't talk any more than I had to, be polite, and get away with as much as I could at that price.

[trapper9260]

I say take all you can buy and then go from there .

[MaryB]

They won't even sell lead from the scrapyard here unless I want a rail car worth. So grab what you can while you can.

[oscarflytyer]

For that price, load all you can afford and sort them at home. Shady Grady will buy whatever zinc you come across.

+1! I would jump on it, smelt and scoop off. Worst case, should end up at no more than $1 lb. I could def live with that!

[swheeler]

buy,buy,buy;)

[Bogone]

The ww I buy here has a lot of zinc and steel weights in it now...

[jacobslagle018]

I wish I could just get some period. I called ~ 30 shops and only 2 would sell. both wanted over 70 bucks per bucket. My area is basically lead free.:(

[Sgtonory]

I ended up with 1100# of a mix of WW and some lead pipe and a few divers weights in the mix all for .35c a pound. My god do i have a lot of sorting to do. Seems i have about a 3% zinc ratio. Not bad so far.

[mikeym1a]

That was a really haul. I'm happy when I can get 100lbs, which I did yesterday. I may smelt it in a little while. Kinda cold, but, I'm tired of being stuck indoors. I've only got a couple shops that will sell me their weights. I get them from the one shop for .20c/lb. The other shops sell them to the salvage yd, and when I can get them, they are .50c/lb. So, my prices average out to yours! And you got a LOT more than me! Have fun! :-D

[RogerDat]

Our scrap yard has WW for $.75 a pound. That is the same price they sell any lead for. I might save up and try out that idea of buying a lot and trading in non-lead for lead credit. Worth a try.

[Bzcraig]

Yes, that is a good price! I pay .35/lb and feel very fortunate considering its $1.00/lb in ingots and that is a good price.

[nightal]

I have two 42lb. MFR boxes of Zinc ready to ship to Shady Grady.
send him a PM just after the new yr. to let him know it was coming, he sent me a PM back that he no longer was trading Zinc for lead, he was out of lead.....:sad:

[smkummer]

There is one yard here that sells for .65-.75 per pound but will let you sort and they always have lead. They are the default source as sometimes we can get 5 gal. buckets for about $25-30 but they will have some zink and even more steel for that price. Dang, that is sad the Grady is out of lead to trade, did he say he would purchase the zink?

[nightal]

Here is his reply to me......


Quote Originally Posted by shadygrady - 01-13-2014 08:39 AM
i do not have any more of the ww ingots but do have other items to trade i will allow you .50 cents a lb for the zinc i have tin/ babbitt/lino/mono/bees wax/hard wax/bp patch cloth/bp/boric acid/top punches/sizer dies/smokeless powder /black powder....

It cost about $17.00 to ship ea. box to him.he will allow you $.50 per pound or in my case $44.00
that is $10.00 profit for me. I didn't ask him if he would pay the shipping to me if we made trade?
I was really counting on that new lead.
I wonder if anyone else is needing zinc.??

[Avenger442]

Anybody know what the zinc might be used for? Can you melt it and use to form other things?

Just finished WW into lead ingots last week. Have about 100lb after processing. WW I processed cost me $25 from the tire shop. Have some steel and zinc weights that I sorted out. Another tire store here takes the steel weights to reuse. So I will have the zinc left over.

Have been getting roof and plumbing lead for 60 cents a pound from the scrap yard.

[badbob454]

zinc cannonballs

[retread]

Is shadygrady still wanting zinc? I heard a while back he quit. I was saving some for him until I saw that in a post.