Lead supplier
- Thread starter dasbrow
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- Saskatchewan
If you don't mind melting down scrap, you might try a company specializing in commercial roofing. I met a crew doing a roof in our town last fall, during our conversations they said they get truckloads of lead sheets on some projects when they are re-roofing heritage buildings - many of the flashings are lead on those old buildings. The lead does not have much value when sold as scrap, but is quite expensive once melted into ingots.
Where did you go or who did you ask? I was considering wheel weights but someone said they are not all lead now, zinc and other stuff.
Anywhere/everywhere my last score set my friend up with a 2800lb keel. I used to have 4 tire places that gave me wheel weights. Zinc is not a big issue. You can pre sort or you can bring up the temp slowly. Lead will melt, zinc will float on top because zinc has a higher melting point.
Wow 2800lb keel! that is nuts.
I bought from them once. It cost nearly $4/lb I couldn't justify paying that. Yomomma hooked me up with some that was surplus to his needs and I'm grateful he opened my eyes. I'm getting dangerously low now I talked to AIM and they will sell the lead weights but I think he said the minimum was 250kg.
SupersonicSupply.ca
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If i remember correctly, Mars Metals has a minimum. Alchemy does not. I bought 200 pounds from them 18 months ago at $1.70 /pound. I am more than happy to pay this for a consistent mix of clean #2 Lymann alloy that is only a phone call away. This works out to 4.8 cents per 200gn bullet.
vagrantviking
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- High River, Alberta
That sounds like a very good price for a known, specific alloy. There are guys asking more for dirty unknown scrap.
How much was aim per pound at 250kg?
I got a qoute from Alchemy back in Oct for 92-6-2 and it was $2.50/lb at 500lb.
At 15 or 17 bullet to the pound it disappears quickly. I split 300 pounds of pure lead with a black powder silhouette shooter. It took him less than a season to shoot 150 pounds of lead
I cast 37 grain 22 cal bullets In theory that is 189 bullets per pound. Lead still gets used quickly.
Wheel weights as a supply are starting to dry up as the auto makers use zinc or iron. I still find them but have to sort out more of the zinc and iron these days. It is worth it as they are a good alloy and the small amount of arsenic added to them makes for better water hardening your cast bullets if you go extra step. Note that the stick on wheel weights are much closer to pure lead and softer. Lead flashing is also pretty pure so needs some tin and antimony to make good bullets except for the BP crowd where soft is better..
put an add on your local kijiji. I offer 2x the going rate to buy lead (typically i offer 75 cents a pound). got a fair bit of lead that way. from a dental x-ray room removal to harder casting lead in ingots that somebody didn't want anymore.
