Looking for Vancouver Lead

P

pgrundle

New member
Rating - 100%
11   0   0
Location
BC
I am a newbie reloader and playing around with the idea of casting some 9mm and 45 Colt bullets and then powder coating them.

I just have two questions:

1. Where would I purchase small lead, 5 pounds a piece, in the Vancouver area?

2. Any suggestions for purchasing powder coat material, either in store or online works for me.

Thank you in advance for any advice given,

PG
 
The retail price of new lead is obscene. I presume there is a Metals Supermarket in GVRD? Try them to find out what price not to pay. I think the one here wanted $10 /lb for unalloyed lead.

You could try some scrap yards, some may have some scrap they will sell by the pound.

Another thought is to find a gun shop selling Hornady buck shot for reloading, that comes in a 5lb bag.

Your best bet is to go to independent tire shops where the owners do not speak english as a first language. They may have a pail of old wheel weights to sell you for something like 25 cents /lb.

The shops run by white guys gave all their weights away years ago.
 
Try the EE and Craigslist.

I found several hundred lbs of pure lead and wheel weights back when I was building up my lead stash. Still have enough right now to last many years, mostly sourced from Craigslist and the EE. I even got 300+ lbs of wheel weights from an CGNner in Calgary, which was picked up and brought over by a buddy who lives in Calgary who spent Thanksgiving with us 6 years ago.

Another CGNner from Kamloops dropped off 400+ lbs at my place when I offered to pay for his gas. He was really coming over to Vancouver anyway and the gas was bonus. Still came out cheaper than scrounging around Vancouver. Lots of nice guys here in CGN.
 
Purity Casting Alloys (Surrey) used to sell five pound weights in pure lead, as well as some lead alloys. They may still.

Teck has a lead sales operation in Vancouver that used to sell small lead ingots (5 pounds, 50 pounds etc. right up to 5 tonne pigs). Sorry, for the life of me I cannot remember the name right now. I live 10 minutes from the Smelter in Trail and work there, but they won't sell lead locally - you had to buy it from Vancouver and have it shipped (for big $$$). So - they make it here, ship it to Vancity, then ship it back to where it was made because...reasons. Due to the shipping prices and the sheer stupidity of it all I have blocked the name from my memory. Maybe someone else will know?

I was told by a former Vancity resident that there are several scrap yards in the area that take (and also sell) lead - largely ballast and such. Some of them have chopped up ballast, which results in you being able to buy a small chunk that might be 5 or 10 pounds.
 
Geraldo said:
I live 10 minutes from the Smelter in Trail and work there, but they won't sell lead locally - you had to buy it from Vancouver and have it shipped (for big $$$). So - they make it here, ship it to Vancity, then ship it back to where it was made because...reasons.
Click to expand...

I used to wonder about policy like this same as everybody else, but then I took a job in industrial sales and I no longer wonder. Retail sales is a very different business than industrial sales, and if you are setup for one the other is somewhere between inconvenient and impossible. We are setup to sell large quantities of material to accounts, and when some yokel wanders in looking for a little welding rod I just know he is going to whine about the prices and the container size, asking won't we just sell a few rods? Fortunately, telling them that we don't have a cash float, don't take credit cards and it will take 10 minutes to generate an invoice is often enough to chase them away. Good riddance to them and their $20 sale. Come back when you can write a $20,000 purchase order.
 
BattleRife said:
I used to wonder about policy like this same as everybody else, but then I took a job in industrial sales and I no longer wonder. Retail sales is a very different business than industrial sales, and if you are setup for one the other is somewhere between inconvenient and impossible. We are setup to sell large quantities of material to accounts, and when some yokel wanders in looking for a little welding rod I just know he is going to whine about the prices and the container size, asking won't we just sell a few rods? Fortunately, telling them that we don't have a cash float, don't take credit cards and it will take 10 minutes to generate an invoice is often enough to chase them away. Good riddance to them and their $20 sale. Come back when you can write a $20,000 purchase order.
Click to expand...


You know how many car sales where lost because the prospective client didn't look like he or she had two nickels to rub together?
Local sales for lead from the smelter are prolly contract sales...
One might have better luck if there where to contact a scrap metal recycler, but they are going by the way side, like the one in Richmond BC that was sold when the property was worth millions upon millions for condos and new millionaires coming to Canada.
Rob
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom