LIno Type lead current price
- Thread starter HIGHRPM
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Are you buying or selling? I got mine at scrap lead prices, but bought a tonne of lead at the time, then spent the next summer processing all the wheelweights and sorting through what I had.
I ended up with several different types of lead that I keep separate ( and labeled!!!)
I wouldn't melt it down into ingots, but leave it as is, so that you couldn't be accused of not selling what you say you have (like blended in a bunch of wheelweights to make the "good stuff" seem like it's more than actually there)
For me it'll end up as trading stock, but look at rotometals for a baseline as to what you might prices your stash at.
I ended up with several different types of lead that I keep separate ( and labeled!!!)
I wouldn't melt it down into ingots, but leave it as is, so that you couldn't be accused of not selling what you say you have (like blended in a bunch of wheelweights to make the "good stuff" seem like it's more than actually there)
For me it'll end up as trading stock, but look at rotometals for a baseline as to what you might prices your stash at.
last time I got linotype from a gal in North Van I paid $1.25/lbs
still have 50 lbs left
- Location
- Lumby Town!!
I just bought from Metalex as well....I paid aobut 1.60/lb for 4% antimony
Every time I have gone there, there is no guarantee of what blends they might have in stock and you have to buy a 60 # ingot at whatever price they are looking for and once they told me that if they had what I wanted and they only had a full pallet load they would not sell one or two ingots off of it. I fully know what Lino type is used for, been reloading and casting for a dam long time. Lino type in its raw form is not easy to find, and your purchase at $1.25 was a fantastic buy. Over the past two to three years I have seen supposed ingots of Lino type for up to $3.00 a #, again that's why I am asking for a current price. A lot of the scrap yards charge $1.00 to 1.50 for pure and I have never found raw Lino type at any scrap metal yards, just getting lead wheel weights is hard enough. So, I am trying to find out the current asking price for raw Lino type, so that I can buy what this guy has and pass along some to others at the same price if anybody is looking to make their own lead blends, like myself.
That's a great price, if that's the blend you are looking for. I need to do my own lead blends for all my different loads. That's why I am trying to purchase the raw Lino type, I like to create rather than buy a compromise for myself.
kelseyscooter1
Regular
- Location
- Central Alberta
i have paid up to $1.50 for lino.
I totally understand that the foundries are making ingots-pigs for commercial clients and the prices from Metalex is the best in the Lower Mainland, but, with my almost non existent pension, I need to really watch what and where I spend on my shooting. I have no choice but purchase in smaller batches and make my own. The law of economics greatly affects me. Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated !
