wheel weight and range lead value

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redmist25

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Hi. Thought this is the best place to ask. I have hundreds of lbs of unprocessed wheel weights and recovered range lead from an indoor range. I have around 12-15 five gallon pails in the Durham/ mount forest area , but live in Kitchener.
What would this be worth?
 
Range lead is all over the place as far as quality and contaminates. The usual price around here is free; and there were times when I wondered if it was worth that. At todays lead prices though my son seems to think its worth the propane to smelt it down.
 
The good old days of finding scrap lead in many places has gone. The alloy in even the lead wheel weights that you manage to sort out of the confusion in a five gallon pail is not what was always called wheel weight metal. A lot of China made weights with no particular percentages of metal produced from scrap lead alloys. I noticed with interest that pure lead and wheel weight ingots from one of my U.S. suppliers was listed at $3.00 pound for either metal in poured ingots. And they were sold out !
 
I still get free lead from plumbers and roofers. Its dirty and smokey to melt off the tar and such. I flux it with some bars of linotype i've saved over the years, or i trade brass recycle for tin and lead with my metal guy.

Never actually paid cash for lead
 
Hey Redmist25, there are casters & smelters out there that will buy your lead to process. You just need to attract the attention of these lead seekers…..
Here’s an interesting story. As a reloader I saved almost every spent primer in some big glass containers. Filled 10 or 12 of these. When I sold my house & moved I didn’t want to take these along so I scrambled to dispose of them as best I could.
What I should have done was to take them to the local scrap dealer, after all they are all brass. Brass is an alloy and spent primers have value.
 
hatman1793 said:
Hey Redmist25, there are casters & smelters out there that will buy your lead to process. You just need to attract the attention of these lead seekers…..
Here’s an interesting story. As a reloader I saved almost every spent primer in some big glass containers. Filled 10 or 12 of these. When I sold my house & moved I didn’t want to take these along so I scrambled to dispose of them as best I could.
What I should have done was to take them to the local scrap dealer, after all they are all brass. Brass is an alloy and spent primers have value.
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Many scrapers steer clear of anything bullet related in case there is a live round
 
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