What's the going rate for wheel weights?

[n10sivern]

Old local back woods scrap yard has 55 gal drums of wheel weights. COWW and SOWW mixed together. I asked the owner how much for it and the old man said $0.31 a pound. Is that reasonable? I can't tell for sure but it looks to have been sitting there a while so hopefully won't be much zinc. He said he also has some babbit somewhere but he doesn't know where he put it.

[OS OK]

Oh my gosh...jump in with both feet and buy at least a barrel of them...if you don't need all that you can sell it here in ingot form at a dollar/lb.

Just smelt them separately.

[MrWolf]

Yup what he said. Even better if you are going to sort before you leave, but a bit of work.

[scottfire1957]

Yeah, buy some.

[rondog]

Jump on it like a horny chimp! They ain't makin' any more of 'em. I just scored several buckets full Monday, but they were freebies. Some guy had them cluttering up his garage and his health took a serious downturn, so he just wanted them gone.

[dterninko]

My local scrap dealer will sell me wheel weights or range scrap for $.40 a lb. yield is about 60-70%. So that's about $.62 lb


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[LiveSteamer]

I have two local sources, one is a traditional scrap or junk yard, the other a recycling yard. The scrap yard sells wheel weights for 15 cents a pound and the recycler gets 28 cents a pound. The yeald from the scrap yard is about 50% lead where the yeald from the recycler is about 80%. So I buy from the recycler, hand sort, smelt, and skim off the wheel weight clips and sell the clips, zinc weights, steel weights, and rest of the trash to the scrap yard so the junk doesn't get mixed back into the supply I buy from at the recycler.

[dterninko]

I have a pile of the clips zinc and steel. How much do you typically get when you sell that? I am guessing not much but curious

[Chill Wills]

Jump on it like a horny chimp! They ain't makin' any more of 'em. I just scored several buckets full Monday, but they were freebies. Some guy had them cluttering up his garage and his health took a serious downturn, so he just wanted them gone.

NICE! Looks like most is WW but maybe some other good stuff too?

[mfraser264]

My local scrap yard is paying .17 cents a pound for wheel weights. FYI - clean lead is at .44 cents per pound.

[n10sivern]

They are paying $0.51 a pound here for clean lead

[JAbee]

I just paid $25 for two almost completely full 5 gal buckets of Un-sorted weights. I'm figuring around .15 - .20 a lb.

[fredj338]

Yeah If that was offered to me I would buy the whole thing. The lead tire WW is disappearing sooner than later.

[fredj338]

I just paid $25 for two almost completely full 5 gal buckets of Un-sorted weights. I'm figuring around .15 - .20 a lb.

Well that assumes nearly 100% usable, not likely. About 130#, less 20% crud, if lucky, still not bad, 25c/#. IF you could find a bucket of ww out here, maybe 20% would be usable. The rest is steel, zinc &* plastics.

[Grmps]

Last 200 lb batch of wheel weights I bought for 30 cents a lb at the scrap yard, it only yielded 25% lead :(