Wheel Weight Price in SW Michigan

[mfraser264]

Was at a local scrap yard to who does not sell lead to the public but asked what used wheel weights were bringing, .17 cents/pound as of Oct 9th. Clean lead, they were paying .37 cents/pound.

What are used WW's going for in other parts of the country? Looking for prices as of this past week.

[DW475]

anywhere from 50 cents to $1 a pound depending on where i can find it in Southeast, Alaska

[jabo52521]

A dollar a pound so far in central San Antonio.

[David2011]

DW, Jabo- are those selling prices or buying prices? Seems like a big spread from the original post.

David

[rancher1913]

found a scrap yard about 2 hours from me that will sell and they want a buck a pound, but they have mono, soft, and ww's all seperated and they are all the buck a pound.

[jabo52521]

DW, Jabo- are those selling prices or buying prices? Seems like a big spread from the original post.

David
David, that is the selling price. Never sold any to them.

[Mitch]

If you Can find a scrap yad that will sell to you .80 to 1.00 a lb here

[jonp]

Mid-North Carolina any type of lead including WW is selling for 65 Cents/lb at the scrap yard.

[antz]

In Australia we're paying $7AUD per kilo for scrap lead. You guys are getting a good deal

Antz

[jsizemore]

My scrapyard was selling to me for 25 cents/lb , but went to 15 cents/lb. They said the price on scrap metal was down all over so they were passing it on.

[scottfire1957]

I bought some in San Antonio last year, not central though, and from a shop.

10 bucks for over 100#. I'll be back in December and run by there again. Well, 10 bucks and a wallyworld 5 gallon pail.


Edit: should have been a quote from the san antonio guy earlier.

[LongRangeAir]

Paid .50 a pound for soft lead roof flashing just a few weeks ago in Central Texas. :smile: They had almost 100 lbs of soft ingots (2#) as well. Same price. so it went home with me as well. Woo-H00!!!:bigsmyl2:

[mgread]

i got 4 - 5 gal bucket for 100. of mix WW, so far i have make 178 lbs of Tape on into ingot. and 256 lbs of Clip-on into ingot. i still have one more 5 gal to go. and i sell my lead on eBay for $1.15 to $1.45 for clip-on and $1.35 to $1.75 for tape on. with all flat rate shipping

I'm in South Florida

[nagantguy]

In south eastern MI, half hour east of Lansing the local scrap yards there are two across the street from one another regals and Michaels and they have lead for .79 a post d wheel weight or soft sheet or foundry as of this week when I did some trading at regals.

[floydboy]

Just paid $.40 a pound a couple weeks ago with the option to bring back the junk I sorted out and resell it for $.40 a pound. Bought 2300 pounds and brought back 625 pounds. Had to buy a large metal bin full of everything. Had about 350#'s pure, 20# solder and the rest WW. I was happy with it.

Floyd

[mgread]

Just paid $.40 a pound a couple weeks ago with the option to bring back the junk I sorted out and resell it for $.40 a pound. Bought 2300 pounds and brought back 625 pounds. Had to buy a large metal bin full of everything. Had about 350#'s pure, 20# solder and the rest WW. I was happy with it.

Floyd

Nice job

[RogerDat]

I think the OP is giving the price the yard buys them at, which matters if you are going to try and convince a tire shop or construction crew to sell the lead to you instead of the yard. I have been paying between 25 and 35 cents a lb. sometimes as much as 40 cents back when prices for lead were high. I pay more than the scrap yard for WW's and it is still cheaper for me than buying from the yard.

Have seen yards selling WW's for 35 cents in SE Michigan. I'm guessing they pay about 1/2 that. Have not checked the price the scrap yard would give recently. I accumulated around 1000 lbs. of smelted ingots from COWW's and sort of started slacking off on getting more in favor of spending my budget on tin alloys, printers lead and plain. Have not been checking the prices WW's much of late.

[Hardcast416taylor]

I have never paid for any wheel weights since I started seriously casting back in the `60`s. I was always given pails of them just to get them away from the tire balance station in many garages. Now I have a friend that owns a car dealership that gives me usually a 1/2 - 3/4 full 5 gal. pail of now mixed weights for free. The salvage yard (junk yard) near me is selling weights for mid .80`s, but only paying in the .50`s range. Clean lead is priced differently. In a recent on-line auction 40 lbs. of ingoted lead of an unknown type went for $48.Robert

[quilbilly]

This morning I had a choice of real "lead" wheel weights or roofing lead (dirty) for 60 cents a pound at a local scrap yard. I chose the roofing lead because it is nearly always quite pure and I can make my own alloy. Tomorrow I will turn it into ingots. Wish I had had enough cash to buy more than the 47 pounds I got.