Lead Suppliers
- Thread starter medicdon
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I am going to be selling roughly 150 lbs of lead ingots made from wheel weights, what is a fair price per pound?
Keep checking the tire shops, but go prepared.
Take several empty 5 gal plastic pails with a round piece of old plywood cut to cover the bottom (support).
That way you can swap out what most use to hold the weights. They don't want to pay an employee to scrounge & fix up a suitable container.
An extra pail is also helpful to carry out what you get.... 2 half full pails are a lot easier than 1 overflowing that sits by the balancer!
Also have a bit of "Thank-you" cash, or a "Tim Card". You reap what you sow.
Cheers
jaguar
Take several empty 5 gal plastic pails with a round piece of old plywood cut to cover the bottom (support).
That way you can swap out what most use to hold the weights. They don't want to pay an employee to scrounge & fix up a suitable container.
An extra pail is also helpful to carry out what you get.... 2 half full pails are a lot easier than 1 overflowing that sits by the balancer!
Also have a bit of "Thank-you" cash, or a "Tim Card". You reap what you sow.
Cheers
jaguar
Problem with buying a bucket of wheel weights from a tire shop is all the other crap metal in it. Zinc, steel etc, meaning you throw out 50 percent. So your $2.00 a pound is really $4. However if you can get it for nothing
Not really. I pay $0.32/lb for wheel weights, so I would be at $0.64/lb. I have walked away from a good amount of lead because of what people want for it. I download the going rate for scrap lead and use that as my guide.
Problem with buying a bucket of wheel weights from a tire shop is all the other crap metal in it. Zinc, steel etc, meaning you throw out 50 percent. So your $2.00 a pound is really $4. However if you can get it for nothing
I picked up 205lbs of dirty wheel weights from kijiji for $80 ($0.39/lb). After sorting out the zinc and melting out clips and garbage, then cleaning, I have 156lbs of clean COWW ingots. So it was $0.51/lb for COWW alloy ingots.
If I can keep that price going, I'll be a happy camper
If I can keep that price going, I'll be a happy camper
just keep trying. I got turned down lots.
Problem with buying a bucket of wheel weights from a tire shop is all the other crap metal in it. Zinc, steel etc, meaning you throw out 50 percent. So your $2.00 a pound is really $4. However if you can get it for nothing
I don't find a lot of zinc. lots of steel. i just put them in a bucket and bring them into the scrap yard. just bought a bucket in this week and got .30 pound, don't think the guy looked at it as it was all steel. i think he thought it was mixed.
