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Good Day everyone,

Over the years I have been stashing lead pretty hard however, over the years I have also decreased the amount of shooting I have been doing (kid,new hobby ect). I have enough lead to last well past my lifetime but now factoring in the major decrease in the volume I shoot, it will last my 2-3 lifetimes. As such, I am looking to reduce some of my stockpile. What would clean, ready to cast WW alloy be worth per lb? Also what would clean, ready to cast pure lead (or as close as one could reasonably expect it to be) be worth per lb? Obviously selling to fellow casters and not scrap yards.

I also have a few buckets of sorted wheel weights and some sheets of pure lead to offload.

At this point I am not sure how much I am going to sell, but I will 100% be selling off all of the unprocessed lead and a few hundred lbs of processed clean lead.
 
Scrap price in SW Ontario for clean lead is about $0.65 / lb

Most casters are cheap bastards lol, and would probably melt their own scrap lead into ingots to save a few bucks over buying your ingots.
You have to find a local buyer as shipping cost would be through the roof.
My guess is that it will be hard enough to find a buyer for $2/lb for the ingots.

I tried selling some clean ingots 1.5 or 2 years ago for $1.50/lb and had not one taker.

Are your WW sorted? No zinc and steel ones mixed in?
Wheel weights gets you $0.15 at the scrap yard so tire places would likely give you a 5 gallon pail (is probably 100lb) of weights for 25 bucks.
That would be a mix of usable lead ones and zinc and iron ones...
 
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When I see ads for scrap lead remelted into ingots, the prices are outrageous, anywhere from $2 to $5 per pound.

I don't know if anyone buys at those upper prices. I sincerely hope not. I would have to be modestly desperate to pay even $2.
 
bertn said:
Scrap price in SW Ontario for clean lead is about $0.65 / lb

Most casters are cheap bastards lol, and would probably melt their own scrap lead into ingots to save a few bucks over buying your ingots.
You have to find a local buyer as shipping cost would be through the roof.
My guess is that it will be hard enough to find a buyer for $2/lb for the ingots.

I tried selling some clean ingots 1.5 or 2 years ago for $1.50/lb and had not one taker.

Are your WW sorted? No zinc and steel ones mixed in?
Wheel weights gets you $0.15 at the scrap yard so tire places would likely give you a 5 gallon pail (is probably 100lb) of weights for 25 bucks.
That would be a mix of usable lead ones and zinc and iron ones...
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Oh 100% lol I was the cheap bastard that spent years sourcing , sorting and processing wheel weights and collecting other forms of scrap lead.

I have approx 4000 or so LBS of clean ingots from wheel weights, maybe 250-300LBS of Pure lead ingots and maybe 5-6 full 5 gallon pails of sorted, all lead wheel weights. I have no interest in selling to scrap yards.
 
BattleRife said:
When I see ads for scrap lead remelted into ingots, the prices are outrageous, anywhere from $2 to $5 per pound.

I don't know if anyone buys at those upper prices. I sincerely hope not. I would have to be modestly desperate to pay even $2.
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You should check out some of the auctions. Guys are paying anywhere from $3-$5 per lb . It is insane. I see it posted here for $2-$3.50. Seems to be a wide spread valuation which was why I thought I would reach out to see what the masses think is a FAIR price to pay for clean ingots.
 
I'm not saying you should sell for scrap lead price, just telling you how much that is nowadays.

If you can get that much ($3-$5/lb) at auction then you should totally do that, much easier as well.

Posting for sale in the EE or on GP is something else as actually selling it...

For reference: Mummason shot is $59 plus hst per 25lb., so that comes down to $2.66 (hst included) per lb.
At that price why would you pay 3 to 5 bucks per lb for an unknown alloy?

Just post it for sale and see what you can get, it is really that simple.
It doesn't matter what anyone in this thread is saying that it's worth, the only thing that matters is what someone is actually willing to pay for it.
List it as high as you think you can get and if you can't sell it just keep lowering the price until it sells and then you have your answer.
 
bertn said:
I'm not saying you should sell for scrap lead price, just telling you how much that is nowadays.

If you can get that much ($3-$5/lb) at auction then you should totally do that, much easier as well.

Posting for sale in the EE or on GP is something else as actually selling it...

For reference: Mummason shot is $59 plus hst per 25lb., so that comes down to $2.66 (hst included) per lb.
At that price why would you pay 3 to 5 bucks per lb for an unknown alloy?

Just post it for sale and see what you can get, it is really that simple.
It doesn't matter what anyone in this thread is saying that it's worth, the only thing that matters is what someone is actually willing to pay for it.
List it as high as you think you can get and if you can't sell it just keep lowering the price until it sells and then you have your answer.
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LOL before buying wheel weights and other forms of scrap lead I actually used to just use shot from Hummasons. I used to live about 10 minutes from there.

I only ask as I don't want to be that jacka** posting stuff at ridiculously high rates on here. We have enough of that.
 
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