Price of lead

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Just found a place willin to sell me scrap lead(only lead, pre sorted) for a buck a pound. Apparently it's old diver belts and LOTS of roof flashing. Is it worth it? Sorry about the ignorance I'm somewhat new to buying lead. My old free stockpile ran out so I finally found a reliable guy to go to
 
Roof flashing is usually pure lead, and very useful, diver weights could be anything, including zinc, which is not good for bullets. That price is OK, but I would test the unknown stuff before I bought any.
 
On the West coast, it runs $1.00 at the cheapest. Just melt it all together into ingots and test it for BHN. Then you will know what hardness you have and then decide if you need to add a harder alloy or not to get the hardness you want. But the way it's going, $1.00 per pound is a good buy, sad to say but it is. The real cheap days are disappearing quickly. IMO
 
ryan said:
Roof flashing is usually pure lead, and very useful, diver weights could be anything, including zinc, which is not good for bullets. That price is OK, but I would test the unknown stuff before I bought any.
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:agree: What he said about dive weights. I used to make my own dive weights and used whatever was available (usually wheel weights). That was long before zinc weights reared their ugly head, however.
 
HIGHRPM said:
On the West coast, it runs $1.00 at the cheapest. Just melt it all together into ingots and test it for BHN. Then you will know what hardness you have and then decide if you need to add a harder alloy or not to get the hardness you want. But the way it's going, $1.00 per pound is a good buy, sad to say but it is. The real cheap days are disappearing quickly. IMO
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Melt like items into ingots, that way if you get a crap alloy in one item you don't contaminate the rest of your good stuff. For example you wouldn't want to melt a zinc contaminated downrigger ball or dive weight with your roof flashings. Write the source on the ingot with sharpie and test before combining it with other ingots.
 
If shipping was cheap to the west coast I would pay you .40 per lb. Shipping kills everything in Canada ! Congrats on getting that buy, unheard of in the west !

KellyP said:
Payong 20 cents a lb at a scrapper in toronto for 2"x2" bar nice solid lino type
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Hi All,

There is lead at low price on the market. Yes.

First, check if it has been used in nuclear site or hospital or dentist. And I am not joking.

Second, ask for the purity, that is the stuff that was left in the lead at the end of the process, if it is 98 to 99 % pure good.

Third, shipping is a major problem.

Fourth, to have a good price, I must buy 2 000 Lbs of lead at each time. It is around 1.85 to 2.00 $/lb depending on the CAN $.

Ask yourself, lead at 1 $/Lbs is a deal yes, but just be careful, try 5 lbs and melt it.

Please All do not think I am here to kill any deal. Just be careful.

Good Shooting and ALWAYS BE CAREFUL
 
I can buy extra hard lead alloy shot from Hummason in Ancaster for $2/lbs and I have before for casting. I wouldn't pay $2/lbs for scrap lead unless lead shot went way up in price.
Most places seem to want $1 to $1.25/lbs. I know one guy who went to a scrap dealer in the middle of nowhere and got some for $.75/lbs. Crusty old sewage pipes.
Near impossible to get wheel weights everywhere I've checked. Everyone either already saves them for a friend, has a contract with a scrap dealer, or are required to pay to have them disposed of by a "green certified" recycler (required by company policy, not law).
 
Has the price of lead from smelters in Canada changed much in the last year or even 6 months?
Are the people making lead boolits at a business level seeing the cost of their materials come down in the current economy?
 
This is what we sell,

we deliver free of charge in Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa and sometimes near Toronto.
(I know everywhere there is a range for me to try...)

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Good Shooting and ALWAYS BE CARFEUL
 

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Hi All,

Tin is the worst. Prices from 14 $/lbs (garbage) up to 25 $/lbs (The price I pay) simply unbelievable.

For Lead, last year was like a roller coaster, so we were not able to freeze a price. This year, our price is 2.29 $/lbs BUT if we can sell it to a customer at a lower price, we do it.

The price at the smelter is 1,75 $/lbs up to 2,15 $/lbs, it depends on things I do not understand they told me.

1 lbs bar cost twice the price per Lbs than a 25 Lbs lead hand. And If we buy lead 1 Ton each trip we do.
 
Tex Critter said:
Why should I be careful of lead used in nuclear medicine????????
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I see my comments were read.

The answer is the following :

some shielding products used for radiation protection contain lead contaminated with small amounts of naturally occurring radionuclides. The contaminants are lead-210 (Pb-210) and its daughter nuclides bismuth-210 (Bi-210) and polonium-210 (Po-210).

This Pb (Lead symbol) has been exposed to radiation (X-Ray) repeatedly. The shield may have been contaminated with residues or other. Now, as a shooter, you melt the lead AND this is were the problem arises.

YOU are now exposed with fumes or liquid or with your fingers during reloading with contaminated Lead and you do not even know it.

Good ventilation, gloves, mask etc. we have also a small Geiger unit with us (model SOEKS not expensive)

Our lead is pure and I am the engineer who sign the documents.

Good Shooting and ALWAYS Be CAREFUL

Claude
 
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