I was taking in some aluminum and while waiting my turn I went and looked in the lead bin. Big mistake. There was more good stuff than my truck could haul. I grabbed a few choice items. I left $50 dollars poorer.
That is a 10 pound lead weight, 10 pounds of COWW with a few stickon's and 20 pounds of battery terminals. Oh and a few stainless steel things. That crawfish pot is probably worth half of what I spent.
The battery terminals were a positive surprise. I melted them and made 20 pounds of ingots and got a pound an a half of copper.
The battery terminals came in with a BHN of more than 13 using my lee tester on a bullet I cast while melting them. I do that check so I can mark the ingots. I don't melt clean COWW, no point just consider each one its own small ingot of kind of known properties.
Tim