bucket of wheel weights

[NZClaybuster]

What do you do with the ones that are not lead?

Scrap dealer?
Hardly worth the gas to get there.

 

[Snider shooter]

I usually put back in the bucket they came in and keep filling it with more zinc and steel weights. When I get a few bucket full I take them to the scrap yard along with other scrap I have collected.

 

[PPCLI-Jim]

That sounds about right, I stopped by a salvage yard yesterday and asked about lead. They directed me to a worker, that was just sorting the various weights they had. I got lucky there was a pair of dive weights amongst it all.

 

[Butcherbill]

I take the steel and zinc weights and clips and it all goes into the metal pile at the dump.

 

[bearhunter]

If you can separate the zinc weights and have enough of them to make a run to the scrap dealer, you will get more for the zinc than you paid for it.

 

[Butcherbill]

If you can separate the zinc weights and have enough of them to make a run to the scrap dealer, you will get more for the zinc than you paid for it.

How much do you usually get for a 5gal pail? I have 9-10 pails to sort through currently.

 

[dakotamar]

I wait until i have enough to bring to the scrap yard but it's only 8kms away for me. these days there is hardly any lead weights in the pails, i certainly wouldn't pay for a pail of weights from a garage.

 

[Valiant]

There are utube videos about casting and shooting zinc bullets.
Going from memory you need more heat to cast but the bullets can be loaded to higher velocities than regular cast bullets.

 

[bearhunter]

How much do you usually get for a 5gal pail? I have 9-10 pails to sort through currently.

I don't do five gallon pails. They're too heavy.

Last batch sold for 85 cents/pound, but that was just before Covid. I don't know what prices are now.

Unless there's a lot of zinc in the mix, I don't bother separating it at all, just cast and shoot it.

If I'm casting for a muzzle loader, then I use pure lead.

 

[Butcherbill]

I don't do five gallon pails. They're too heavy.

Last batch sold for 85 cents/pound, but that was just before Covid. I don't know what prices are now.

Unless there's a lot of zinc in the mix, I don't bother separating it at all, just cast and shoot it.

If I'm casting for a muzzle loader, then I use pure lead.

Yeah they’re heavy all right, I find out of a pail of mixed weights I get about half a pail of clip on’s and a 1/4 pail of stick on weights on average. The last 1/4 is more steel than zinc, I don’t know if it would be worth the trouble of taking them to the recycler just on the cost of fuel alone.

I sort everything as I like to separate the harder clip on’s from the softer stick on’s.

 

[NZClaybuster]

I wait until i have enough to bring to the scrap yard but it's only 8kms away for me. these days there is hardly any lead weights in the pails, i certainly wouldn't pay for a pail of weights from a garage.

it came with the tires i bought

 

[PPCLI-Jim]

I don't do five gallon pails. They're too heavy.

Last batch sold for 85 cents/pound, but that was just before Covid. I don't know what prices are now.

Unless there's a lot of zinc in the mix, I don't bother separating it at all, just cast and shoot it.

If I'm casting for a muzzle loader, then I use pure lead.

I paid 1 a lb at the scrapper I went to.

 

[bearhunter]

Yup, I got 85/lb when I sold it, quite clean, so if you bought it for a buck a pound the scrap dealer likely paid 50 cents.

Going market price fluctuates with time and the province.