What's soft lead worth these days?

[gnmontey]

Hey Guys,

I've been approached to sell some of my soft lead stash. It's nice clean stuff. What's a fair asking price?

Thanks,

gnmontey

 

[yomomma]

$2/lb.

I bought my last pure for about$0.50/lb, clean but not in ingots

 

[gnmontey]

$2/lb.

I bought my last pure for about$0.50/lb, clean but not in ingots

Thanks!

 

[BattleRife]

Trading today at USD$1.04 /lb, for reference. That's for newly smelted material, bought by the truckload. That puts it right about where it was before the pandemic got going.

 

[Dinocrome]

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[yomomma]

Honestly, lead is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.

$2/lb is a good starting point. If it does not sell reasonably fast, lower your price.

 

[Potashminer]

How about wheel weight ingots?

I'm moving into a seniors building and have 5-6 hundred pounds of lead and ww to dispose of.

I would agree with yomomma - worth what you can get for it. You apparently can not provide lab certificates of analysis for what contaminants it has - for many buyers that will not matter. I bought about 800 pounds plus of wheel weight ingots - months later, sorting through and weighing - obvious change in surface colour - buddy clearly got into a bunch that contained zinc and just kept on making ingots. So some unknown amount of this stuff is contaminated - and does not appear to matter in the 200 grain .314" bullets that I have cast - so I am okay with it - another person might be quite bent out of shape about that. What you have, what you know, what buyer knows, how bad that he wants it, etc. BTW - I am now 65 - if any was to be sold - damn sure will be a condition of sale that buyer is going to come here and get it, and tote it up the stairs and out the door, because I am not doing that chit no more!!!