Procrastination can pay off
I located a scrap yard that has 1500 pounds of soft lead and would sell it for $0.80 per pound. I fooled around and got there late and found out that I missed it by about 1 hour.
There was a barrel of WWs that he wanted $0.65 per pound for. I got thinking about and decided that I could smelt it and sell off enough locally to profit a couple hundred pounds for myself.
I bought the whole barrel (1270 pounds) at 65 cents per pound. When I started trying to sort out the clippies from the stickies it was getting hard to find WWs for all the Linotype bar, letters, cuttings and spacers. I got about 50 pounds of WWs out of the barrel and the rest was all Linotype.:bigsmyl2:
Now what the heck am I going to do with 1200 pounds of lino and no lead to mix?