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Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) #7635860
07/26/22 08:50 PM
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These are straight wheel weights (from several years ago) melted down in to ingots. I’d say nice and clean. Any idea on a price per pound? Thanks for any help.

Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635865
07/26/22 08:53 PM
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Soft lead ingots go for $2 a pound here. Prices have fell for scrap lead.

Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635868
07/26/22 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by *44
These are straight wheel weights (from several years ago) melted down in to ingots. I’d say nice and clean. Any idea on a price per pound? Thanks for any help.

Send some to that feller in Hazen and let him mold you some fishin' weights while he's sittin' on the porch doing nothin'.

Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635914
07/26/22 10:05 PM
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Most scrap yards won’t take ingots cause they have no idea what you stuffed in the middle


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Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635925
07/26/22 10:23 PM
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I saw a woman cleaning up wheel weights after dark @ the local tire shop. Must be worth something.


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Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635926
07/26/22 10:27 PM
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Iv got hundreds of pounds melted down into ingots.Was cleaned good.Last i bought any i thought it was around a $1 a pound but maybe prices have went up.


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Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635989
07/27/22 02:07 AM
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I've seen people asking as high as $5.00 a pound for lead on Craigslist recently. I bought 89 pounds of lead for $25.00, back in January, that came with a Hilts Molds BSE-3 10 Downrigger Screw Eye Mold and some steel electrical component molds.

I have around 300 more pounds of lead I bought back in the late 90's, for 25 cents a pound.

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Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7635991
07/27/22 03:22 AM
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Lots of people casting bullets are Leary of buying ingots because most states require only zinc or steel weights be used on tires. Zinc weights are often mixed with lead wheel weights by the unknowing or unscrupulous smelter , which leaves ingots of unknown alloy. Bullet casters recently prefer to use a know alloy so often buy from a reputable source. Zinc can do damage to rifle/pistol barrels, ruin bullet moulds, and stick in lead pots.

Most ingots are sold for between $1 and $2 a pound but buyers beware is the common theme these days.


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Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7636008
07/27/22 05:38 AM
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Wouldn't a simple mass / density test tell purity?
At the prices listed here, how much do you guys want?





Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7636029
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I'm seeing less and less lead wheel weights- seems like zinc has become the metal of choice... that source could eventually dry up.

Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7636119
07/27/22 09:42 AM
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Here's what the PMI gun at work showed my ingots make-up as. Straight up clip-on wheel weights, sorted out the zink and iron.

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Re: Lead prices. (Old wheel weights) [Re: *44] #7636649
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Thanks for all the responses.

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