Scrapyard lead score

[dtknowles]

I picked up 125 pounds of scrap at the yard for $120. I was pretty happy because there were 43 9 oz. bars of 78/22 solder in the mix.286577
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Got other interesting stuff, lots of sinkers and more than 200 round balls/buckshot, kind of an odd size for me 0.340" ish. Don't work for 32 or 36.
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Tim

[Hodagtrapper]

Nice haul!

Chris

[Winger Ed.]

Cool.

They were used for other things also, but those bars look like what car body shops used
for dent repair before Bondo came along in the late 1950s.

For extensively repaired car bodies: Today, we have 'Bondo buggies', in the old days, they had 'Lead sleds'.

Check what they're going for, but you might be able to sell the sinkers on Ebay, and make a couple bucks.

Look up on a shotgun chart, those might be a size of buckshot balls.

[rancher1913]

enjoy it while it lasts, more and more scrap yards wont sell lead to the public any more.

[la5676]

Without derailing the original thread, can I inquire what is the current price on lead ingots, mostly WW already smelted, clarified and in ingots. Know someone with a bunch, and I haven't bought lead in forever, always raided tire shops when you could still do it.

[Bull-Moose]

Nice score!

[Conditor22]

Always nice to find marked solder bars for cheap :)

[Mitch]

Nice find.2 of 3 local scrap yards that would sell to me closed in the last few years.Get it while you can.I am happy i hiy yhem up often and now have a liftime supplie.

[richhodg66]

Perhaps 000 buck shot? I'll check later for what size .340 is.

Nice haul. Our scrap yard here still will sell lead, but I have a lot more than I'm likely to use up unless my shooting volume increases dramatically when I retire, which it might.

[lightman]

Nice Score! None of the yards around here will sell to the public.

[lightman]

Without derailing the original thread, can I inquire what is the current price on lead ingots, mostly WW already smelted, clarified and in ingots. Know someone with a bunch, and I haven't bought lead in forever, always raided tire shops when you could still do it.

The going prices in the Swapping & Selling section seem to be between $1 and $1.50 a pound shipped. Type metal is a little more.

[dtknowles]

Always nice to find marked solder bars for cheap :)

Yeah, without those it was not really a deal. I should have left a lot of the pipe behind, cutting a smelting made it more expensive than deals here on S & S.

Tim

[dtknowles]

Cool.

They were used for other things also, but those bars look like what car body shops used
for dent repair before Bondo came along in the late 1950s.

For extensively repaired car bodies: Today, we have 'Bondo buggies', in the old days, they had 'Lead sleds'.

Check what they're going for, but you might be able to sell the sinkers on Ebay, and make a couple bucks.

Look up on a shotgun chart, those might be a size of buckshot balls.

Kind of like OO buck.

Tim