View Full Version : First buy for lino
Gun Nut
10-04-2010, 03:25 PM
I just happened to call a local yard and ask for ww prices, and the guy said no ww but he did have lino. So I bought the 45 pounds he had for 20.00 I think i did alright? This is nothing but very small letters and numbers. He said he only gets once in a blue moon, but all the other scrap yards want 1.15 a pound is that normal? And if I understand things right this would make good fast rifle boolits?
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Rangefinder
10-04-2010, 03:41 PM
Man, less than $0.50 per pound for lyno? Nice score--yuo, most lyno is going for over a $1 a pound, usually a bit more. Well done.
lwknight
10-04-2010, 07:01 PM
The scrapyards are paying less that 50 cents a pound for lino.
They probably only get 75 cants from the smelter.
Leeches, I hate em.
hammerhead357
10-04-2010, 08:12 PM
I would bet the scrape yard only paid like minimum price for the lino. I haven't called my favorite yard to check what they are paying for a while but last time I inquired they were paying the same for all lead.
I don't like leeches either, however everyone must make a profit to stay in business and I wouldn't think that the average yard would have enough lead to deal with a smelter.
The one I use the most doesn't usually have but a couple of barrel sitting around and there may not be much in them. But then the yard is a small one and out in the boonies....Wes
Thecyberguy
10-09-2010, 08:22 AM
Good score. The only one up here that I have found wants a buck a pound.
Have a good 'un, TCG
lwknight
10-09-2010, 02:03 PM
however everyone must make a profit to stay in business and I wouldn't think that the average yard would have enough lead to deal with a smelter.
They don't have to try and make all the profit in one place though.
And if it was just little numbers and letters it very well may be monotype, that is about 12% Sn vs 4% for lino. Check it by whacking one with a single-jack - if it shatters, it is probably mono, and Boy, did you EVER get a buy!
Charlie Sometimes
10-09-2010, 08:58 PM
Any time you can get good lino for less than a $1/lb you are doing good, IMHO.
I made a score today on some lino my neighbor had. He used to be a printer. He had 35 ingots (19 lb. each give or take)- that's about 665 lb. total. I traded him 500 rounds of 38 Spl reloads for it! :bigsmyl2:
home in oz
10-09-2010, 09:00 PM
you did well
lwknight
10-09-2010, 09:43 PM
that about 665 lb. total. I traded him 500 rounds of 38 Spl reloads for it!
Thats almost as good as free.
AaronJ
10-12-2010, 11:02 PM
i got about 1000lb from a friend i used to work with for $75. he said the scrapyard wouldnt take it and asked if i could use it.
Gun Nut
10-12-2010, 11:38 PM
:holysheep. Wow, what a friend!
Charlie Sometimes
10-13-2010, 10:55 AM
A scrap yard wouldn't take scrap metal?
THAT don't make sense. :veryconfu
Is it THAT taboo now?
a.squibload
10-14-2010, 06:21 AM
Well, remember, it's EVIL metal...
AaronJ
10-14-2010, 08:08 PM
the vast magority of it was still in type face we had a hell of a time in the shop re labeling things. one guys status on his time card got changed from mechanic to chearleader lol
sljacob
10-14-2010, 09:38 PM
1 dollar a pound is what I payed for some the other day and felt that lucky to get it
Does anyone know if there is a difference in lino that is used for letters and lino that is used for spacers?
I got a pretty good price on some lino a while back and most of it is "spacer" material.
I was planning on just saving it, but from what i've read elsewhere "spacers" are supposed to be mostly lead and no where near as hard as real lino. I dunno, but I can tell you it won't even begin to scratch with a fingernail.
Should I just melt some and test it for BHN?
lwknight
10-14-2010, 10:04 PM
I could not tell any difference. I even casted the spacers in their own ingot ( 10 pounder) and it looked and acted exactly the same as the letters did. Melt and solid temperatures were the same too.
I did not go so far as doing a S.G or hardness test though.
Bullshop
10-14-2010, 11:10 PM
I got a bunch from the News Miner in Fairbanks when they went to a new system. There was still in the original boxes marked mono-type a lot of the spacer material in long strips.
The lino was in 20 lb ingots with a eye at one end.
Charlie Sometimes
10-15-2010, 10:00 PM
I got some mixed letters and spacers some years ago that were marked 6Sb18. They were of the same hardness. If they had been soft, I doubt that the printers would be able to use them due to the lack of keeping uniform spacing.
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