Florida: 6,654 lbs. Government Lead

[bowfin]

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[thegreatdane]

wow! We should see if anyone would be willing to do a group buy on this.

[Lefty SRH]

Wow, thats way down south Florida. I'd be interested in getting some but wouldn't be able to Honcho the buy.

[2wheelDuke]

That's pretty close to me here. Even still, logistics may be a bit of a challenge. I certainly couldn't fit that in my pickup truck.

I just checked Penske, and it'd cost me a couple hundred bucks for a truck for the day with enough capacity.

I need to keep a close eye on this one.

[D Crockett]

I will do some checking on this lead and see if it is doable on my end D Crockett

[2wheelDuke]

Anyone have an idea exactly what sort of lead this is? I'm assuming it was used as ballast of some sort. It'd be great if somebody could nail down some details as to where it comes so we'd have a better guess about composition.

[Tpb10505]

Man I'd like a couple hundred lbs of that stuff. Pretty sure each one of those bricks would be around 30lbs a piece

[youngda9]

I just did the math on the bricks. $.41lb/in^3 * L16" * W4" * H1" = 31.16 lb each. If I only lived closer I would snatch it up !

[seanhagerty]

I saw that and had thought I could make it work from Missouri!! Of course, I would drive down with a trailer to pick it up, then resale.
I figured $1000 total for pick up fees, another $800 to win the auction. So, roughly 2K in costs, then keep 3-400lbs for my own use. that leaves 6K lbs to sell, at $0.75/lb thats $4.5K. So, the economics work out.

Now the trouble would be in getting the time to go get it and repackage it.

Hmmmm........

[evan price]

http://www.govliquidation.com/auctio...tionId=5766026

3280 pounds of battery terminals in Alabama.

[9.3X62AL]

Sean & Young DA.....

If I were closer, this would tempt me mightily to honcho, assuming it's unalloyed lead or some other composition that was bullet- or casting-friendly. The costs seem right-side-up for someone close at hand, and among this bunch the alloy would almost sell itself. As long as .gov doesn't want end-user certifications or some other EPA-inspired bullrot, this could work very well for an enterprising soul.

I benefited from a sailboat-ballast project a few years back. Marie's uncle used about 2300# of what tested at WW hardness that he had some maquiladoro in Tijuana cast into 1" x 4" and 2" x 4" ingots, and he laid them like bricks among the keel stringers and ribs. (There's probably a boat-specific name for those parts, but I'm just an angler, not Magellan). I got about 250# of ends, angles, and lead sawdust (THAT was heavy stuff, and it didn't take up much space in a 5-gallon bucket), and during the smelting party some of the sawdust and scraps contained iron filings, like the black stuff a magnet draws out of beach or playground sand. Tommy did complain about power saw blade life; small wonder. Ya want guaranteed assay? Don't have yer lead work done south of the border. So if possible, know or find out about composition--unless you have an industrial-size furnace, you're likely to need to cut some of those ingots up some.

[Elkins45]

Neither of the posted links worked on my iPad.

[hiram]

I'll be in Boynton Beach in December. It may be too late for this, but I could do 1000#.

[2wheelDuke]

Looks like the auction was deleted and reset. I don't remember what the dates were before, because it disappeared from my watch list.

But I was able to search "lead" and find what appears to be the same lot at Homestead AFB.

http://www.govliquidation.com/auctio...&convertTo=USD

[bowfin]

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[2wheelDuke]

I'm still keeping a close eye on this auction.

[SciFiJim]

Looks like the auction was deleted and reset. I don't remember what the dates were before, because it disappeared from my watch list.

But I was able to search "lead" and find what appears to be the same lot at Homestead AFB.

http://www.govliquidation.com/auctio...&convertTo=USD

Just did the math. Each of the bars pictured in the above listed auction weighs just over 31 lbs.

[Hammerlane]

Lead go for about .68 + 10% = .748 per lb You are better off staying @ home and work the local scrapyard. Most of these Auctions go to foundries that already have the Trucks and man power to make it work. You only have about $1660 in profit to rent a truck move it. Sound like alot of work to me

[koehlerrk]

http://www.govliquidation.com/auctio...&convertTo=USD

Anyone near Oklahoma City? 415 boxes of old wheel weights... Opening bid, $150

[Tpb10505]

http://www.govliquidation.com/auctio...&convertto=usd

anyone near oklahoma city? 415 boxes of old wheel weights... Opening bid, $150

yes!!