Thread: Looking for a supplier for soft lead

Originally Posted by sparkie51

I was in the same boat as you couldn't find any lead locally. Finally found a tire place not the major stores but a smaller one that had buckets of lead wheel weights. Bought 100# for $15. Did have to melt it down into ingots. After all the melting and removing slag I ended up with 78# for the little I paid for it. The shop that had the weights just didn't want to waste time to take the lead to scrap dealer.

Not pure and has steel fastners so lots cheaper . Not real soft , alloy
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Originally Posted by algenco

RotoMetals
They have reasonable prices

Looks high to me . I know guys that scrap out electrical insulaters that have lead in them . I think they charge well under 1 buck a pound depending on market price .

My local tire dealer wants $40 for a bucket of wheel weights. The local scrap dealer wants 0.30 per lb. Got to sort the lead, alloy, zinc, steel, trash and scrap before starting to cast ingots. The alloy does a pretty good job of casting sinkers and bullets. I hold onto the lead weights until a get a good amount. I clean out the high school ROTC pellet range room twice yearly. Along with the cadets helping it takes about 2 hours. With the lead wheel weights I get about 50 lbs of pure lead ingots. My last casting of pure pellets was 26 lbs. I sort out the zinc and cast large tractor weights. I cast ingots over a fire pit, no problem getting the heat up for lead and alloy. Have to get the fryer base out for the zinc.

Call Louie at grizzly jig.and Catfish sinker's usually 1-2 oz weights.Meltdown and re pour.Duck Decoy weights. Cheap.and clean.