Are wheel weights worth paying for?

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Hello gents, I have decided to start gathering up some lead in case I decide to cast my own bullets in the future. I know that many of you get your lead from tire shops for free, but do any of you ever pay? I asked at a shop what they did with their lead and they told me that they let the kids that work there sell it for scrap. The lady told me that they were getting less than before as price as come down to 3 bucks. She failed to mention if that was for a pound, KG or a bucket-full...

So here are my questions, what is that stuff really worth and how do you go about setting a fair price? How do you mesure the weight/quantity? Would it be simpler just to buy it from the scrap metal place directly instead of running around every tire shop in the city?
 
Last stuff I got I paid 26 cents a pound, I was quite happy to pay that.

2 full 5 gallon pails weigh alot!! and will make a ton of bullets.
 
I spoke with a buddy of mine who owns a garage, he said the guy who used to buy his lead does not come along to much any more, so I am guessing the price of lead is low now, though you would not know that by looking at what a price of lead shot goes for.
 
Good, thanks for the replies. I must say that I would rather get it for free, but if 20$ for a 5 gal. bucket can save me some driving around, I may make up the difference in fuel. :)
 
I'd gladly pay 20-25 bucks a 5 gallon bucket...IF I COULD GET IT FOR THAT PRICE !!!! I thought I had a deal with a local scrap rat, but he's like a fart in the wind. A scrap dealer in Mississauga wants 50 cents a pound for them.....forget that noise. The garages around here are so flipping dead it isn't even funny. They just don't have anything worth while going after....5 pounds here, 10 there.

If anybody in the western GTA/Hamilton Ont area has a hookup for 25 bucks a 5 gallon bucket, I'll take 5 right now, and I'll pick them up.

Oh, and anybody who says scrap weights are worth their weight in lead can go fly a kite. Go try and drop off some with a scrap dealer. Mixed in with that lead is steel clips, zinc weights, steel weights, tin, antimony, dirt, valve stems, valve cores, last months dumped coffee, tire labels, mechanics wire, and everything else under the sun. That is NOT sorted clean lead.
 
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