Virgin Lead - OUCH!
- Thread starter medicstimpy
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- Bancroft Ont.
i was talking to a smelter a couple weeks ago and it was $3.75 with a min of 350 LBS...having a hard time finding scrap lead as it keeps going to China and keep finding that the bulk of the wheel weights are zinc that i pick up
$1.50 a pound doesn't sound too bad. But with lead being as heavy as it is, I don't think shipping would be economical.
Then again, $1.50 a pound would be about the same as buying those cheap awful bullets mentioned on another thread and recasting them. It's a pain to boil and skim off that cheap lube, though.
I'll have to go check some of the local recyclers.
Yup, WW's are getting harder to scrounge especially the lead ones.
Then again, $1.50 a pound would be about the same as buying those cheap awful bullets mentioned on another thread and recasting them. It's a pain to boil and skim off that cheap lube, though.
I'll have to go check some of the local recyclers.
Yup, WW's are getting harder to scrounge especially the lead ones.
A few years back Ken Mollohan came up with an alloy, rightly named Mollohan's Mix, that when you mixed X pounds of it with Y pounds of lead based wheel weights, you ended up with X & Y pounds of Lyman No 2 alloy.
It sure saved on shipping costs if you could get cheap wheel weights locally.
Now everything is more expensive, but you can bet that store bought bullets will be going up at the same rate, so casting is still an option.
It sure saved on shipping costs if you could get cheap wheel weights locally.
Now everything is more expensive, but you can bet that store bought bullets will be going up at the same rate, so casting is still an option.
Fortunately I've got enough wheel weight lead, pure lead and linotype lead to damage the springs of my truck if I loaded it all in one load! And I've got four or five file boxes full of brass too. I've had a hunch for a long time that the time was coming when I would be glad to have these supplies.
- Location
- Bancroft Ont.
Set up a screen/sluice and start working the backstops afterhours
allready thought about that but most of the clubs around here are using tree bark as their backstops...
#2 alloy
Lyman Reloading Handbook---46 edition page 162
recipes for #2 alloy
9# WW and 1# 50/50 bar solder
or
4# linotype plus 1# 50/50 bar solder and 5# pure lead
With prices so high now it gets tempting to sell some linotype, but then I might need it (3/4 ton), better keep the 500 plus # of range lead(salvage from back stop) ofcourse the 500# of pure lead is needed.
I do handgun projectiles with 5 parts range lead to 1 part linotype.
Pure linotype for rifle and a few for handgun.
Lyman Reloading Handbook---46 edition page 162
recipes for #2 alloy
9# WW and 1# 50/50 bar solder
or
4# linotype plus 1# 50/50 bar solder and 5# pure lead
With prices so high now it gets tempting to sell some linotype, but then I might need it (3/4 ton), better keep the 500 plus # of range lead(salvage from back stop) ofcourse the 500# of pure lead is needed.
I do handgun projectiles with 5 parts range lead to 1 part linotype.
Pure linotype for rifle and a few for handgun.
excuse my ignorance.... but what is "linotype lead" . I have buckets and buckets of used fishing weights.... I'm a fishing freak... and i melt them to form larger weights. I'm thinkin i may have to get into reloading so it's good to know i have another use for all this pure lead.
