Gar
02-26-2009, 05:17 PM
Awhile back a group of us in Arizona tried to do a group buy on lead wheel weights. While we thought we had 5000 lbs, the scrap metal dealer didn’t have them and couldn’t find any. [smilie=b:
Since then I’ve found several scrap dealers in and around Phoenix that do have wheel weights, but they are wanting upwards to 80 cents a pound for them (in 500 lb lots) and no guaranties on the amount of steel or zinc weights that are mixed in.
Now the good news.
Okay, first let me say I have no stake in this business whatsoever. Just consider this a public service announcement.
There is a gentleman in Elfrida, Arizona that is running a shot reclamation operation. I spoke with him last week and this morning he and his wife delivered two 55 gallon drums of reclaimed shot (2 ½ tons) at my house. Cost per pound delivered was 50 cents. He (Mike) and his wife Kathleen McNeeley are really nice people and seem anxious to please.
I asked Mike to bring along an ingot that he had cast so I could test the hardness, using a Lee Hardness tester, it was approximately 17 BHN.
Here is a link to their website, however Mike said they are having a new website built and the address may change next week. Also several new options are being added for the sale of their lead.
http://mcneeley5.googlepages.com/
Happy casting, Gar
Since then I’ve found several scrap dealers in and around Phoenix that do have wheel weights, but they are wanting upwards to 80 cents a pound for them (in 500 lb lots) and no guaranties on the amount of steel or zinc weights that are mixed in.
Now the good news.
Okay, first let me say I have no stake in this business whatsoever. Just consider this a public service announcement.
There is a gentleman in Elfrida, Arizona that is running a shot reclamation operation. I spoke with him last week and this morning he and his wife delivered two 55 gallon drums of reclaimed shot (2 ½ tons) at my house. Cost per pound delivered was 50 cents. He (Mike) and his wife Kathleen McNeeley are really nice people and seem anxious to please.
I asked Mike to bring along an ingot that he had cast so I could test the hardness, using a Lee Hardness tester, it was approximately 17 BHN.
Here is a link to their website, however Mike said they are having a new website built and the address may change next week. Also several new options are being added for the sale of their lead.
http://mcneeley5.googlepages.com/
Happy casting, Gar