Need soft lead
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Good idea, thanks
Stick on wheel weights are soft lead .. So do not turn your nose up on wheel weights to fast ... Just need some one to let you pick through what they have ...
Hospital flasks .. They are reasonably soft also .. Ask junk yards about them .. Call a hospital that does nuclear medicine ask who picks up their waste. Is held by hospital for the few days it takes to become non radioactive prior to release so you will not get to be a zombie yourself ....
Also old diving belts .. and a lot of old boats have soft lead ballast ..
Hospital flasks .. They are reasonably soft also .. Ask junk yards about them .. Call a hospital that does nuclear medicine ask who picks up their waste. Is held by hospital for the few days it takes to become non radioactive prior to release so you will not get to be a zombie yourself ....
Also old diving belts .. and a lot of old boats have soft lead ballast ..
Several years ago I was gearing up to start casting bullets and one of my prime sources of lead was a plumber friend of a guy I worked for.He had many 100's of pounds of old lead pipe as he did a lot of retro-fits on older buildings.Not sure if that still goes today but depending on location there could still be a fair bit of this stuff being replaced?I think it would be worth a call to a plumber just in case.
Oh by the way, I used alot of cast lead mixed with wheel weights for my last batch. Is it going to be too soft for 9mm?
You know, the lead that they used to pour between cast iron waste pipes in old houses to make the seal between the pipes. Quite soft.
You know, the lead that they used to pour between cast iron waste pipes in old houses to make the seal between the pipes. Quite soft.
Right now the market price of lead is 92 cents a pound. Retail price for new lead from a supplier/warehouse in smaller quantities/ingots should be around $1.50 to $2/lb.
I recently took in a whole bunch of old car batteries into a scrapper and was paid 35 cents/lb (lead went down this month, so today the price is only 30 cents/lb I think). They also pay more for clean lead. So for them to sell nice clean lead isn't going to be cheap.
I recently took in a whole bunch of old car batteries into a scrapper and was paid 35 cents/lb (lead went down this month, so today the price is only 30 cents/lb I think). They also pay more for clean lead. So for them to sell nice clean lead isn't going to be cheap.
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Are you selling it? I used to get it from some demolition guys but my source dried up.
Some body shops still keep lead babbet (babbit?), but I'm nit sure if it's pure or not Scrap lead pipe or roofing is great, if you can find it. There are a few sellers in SW ON that sell it for about $2 a pound, but it's in pure ingots, so it saves a lot of hassle. You're right tat regular WW is too brittle for Minnie or anything that is meant to obturate in the bore.
It's $1.50 a lb. here, not in ingot form but that's ok. Just have to find a seller for small amounts of it.
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Look for major renovations in old neighbourhoods. A buddy of mine was doing work on another buddy's 'mansion' that's about 120 years old. So far I'm up to around 180 lbs of nice soft pure lead. I'm already asking around for more!
