I bought a 5 gal. bucket at local metal yard a few weeks ago, not a month, paid 23.00 it weighted just past 100 lbs.

Well, the shop I was trying to buy wheel weights from doesn't want to give me a price to pay, so I checked into another local shop a couple minutes ago and lucked into a pretty good deal-he's got 4 buckets sitting on the shop floor and said he'll sell 'em for $25 each. I'm going back in a couple minutes with the truck and $100. Whoo-hoo. That'll give me somewhere in the neighborhood of about 500lbs of WW's to smelt and pour into ingots. Now I've gotta get some .430 and .358 moulds.

I have about 200-250 pounds of scrap lead sitting in my garage.
Anybody wants it, come get it. For nothing, just get it out of here.

PM incoming.

I got the WWs yesterday and brought them home. Today I weighed the buckets and it totaled up to 500 lbs. That makes close to 600lbs with the little bit of WWs I already had.

I should be set for a little while.

Now the fun part cleaning them up!! I hate to sort them but must do it. Clint

My source charges me 16 cents a pound for lead scrap - which includes clip-on wheel weights, and battery clamps, and lots of waste and crap I have to seperate before I get to the melt.

I avoid stick-on WW's as they are high in Zinc content!

But don't overlook sources for softer lead like battery clamps.

The stickon's that you can twist are lead. zinc and steel will not twist by hand . Clint

I picked up 55lbs of clean wheel weights today for $10.

I just picked up a bucket that looks like someone poured motor oil or something similar on them. I suppose they'll melt ok but it could get smokey. I'm a little worried about throwing more of them into an already hot melt. It might pop like water going in.

Bb