Price of Scrap Lead?

bluemike807

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So I've sourced a local scrap dealer who apparently has 'a bucket' of wheel weights. My plan is to check it out tomorrow - he wants $20-25 (going to offer $20) for the bucket. Thats assuming they are all lead, as opposed to Zinc or other materials.

Is that a decent price? I realize there's alot of IFs : if its the price for the bucket and I cant pick through it, IF its all lead, IF the bucket isnt the size of a coke can, etc.

One way or the other Im going to haggle with the guy, because he let slip that he doesnt really do anything with them anyway - but whats the price I should be considering, or is it good as it stands?
 
Like you said... IF.
If it's a 5 gallon bucket and it's mostly lead alloy weights, $20-25 is a pretty good price. It seems that lead alloy wheel weights are getting harder to find, at least in BC (and I don't know where you're from).
 
If you're getting a full 5 gallon pail of wheelweights, then $25 is going to be for more than 100lbs of lead (give or take). Don't screw with the man if he wants $25 - give him his asking price and ask him to call you when he's got more... around here, a guy will pay a few bucks a pound for pure lead at the scrappers if he's not careful, and finding tin and antimony to alloy it up - yikes. At 25 cents or so a pound for alloy weights, I'd give the man his money AND buy him a beer on the way out the door...

Just my $0.02.

-M
 
Yep, tire dealers usually will sell a pail for $20-25, scrap dealers usually try to charge more, I know a scrap dealer that will buy WW for .20 cents a pound.
 
I have been either getting it free from shops I know, or paying $20 for a 5 gallon pail, that yields 105 or so lbs of lead alloy ingots once its melted. A little more is still fair, and free or trade for favor is better!
 
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