Posted: 7/8/2015 2:37:01 AM EDT
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Anybody have or want to sell some scrap lead? I am looking to melt and pour a 15 to 25 pound brick/block with a carrying handle/strap in it to fit in the tray of a Caldwell Solo. |
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Check with a tire store in your area for broken wheel weights. Have you tried this? As an amateur lead collector, I have had zero luck anywhere near ATL doing this. I have gotten some way out in the sticks, but you'll most likely be paying for the bucket of scrap and you will have to smelt it yourself. Lots of trash in the buckets as well.... tire stems, lug nuts, brake pads... The only time I have gotten free lead wheel weights, is when I have hauled off a bunch of tires for them. How soon do you need the lead? I can spare a few pounds. |
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I've got an X-ray lead lined door you can have that's in Marietta It's got plenty of lead if you're willing to work to get it out I need some pure lead...have a new flintlock on the way....and also need to pour some flint wraps.....Might road trip up on sat week with the wife if you still have it.. How heavy is the door...truck or would wifes Ford freestyle haul it |
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I need some pure lead...have a new flintlock on the way....and also need to pour some flint wraps.....Might road trip up on sat week with the wife if you still have it.. How heavy is the door...truck or would wifes Ford freestyle haul it Quoted:
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I've got an X-ray lead lined door you can have that's in Marietta It's got plenty of lead if you're willing to work to get it out I need some pure lead...have a new flintlock on the way....and also need to pour some flint wraps.....Might road trip up on sat week with the wife if you still have it.. How heavy is the door...truck or would wifes Ford freestyle haul it definitely truck. door is at least 300lbs 3' x 7' |
| I have a tire store, our wheel weights are all steel now and the battery companies pay very well for our scrap. so if you can find one who will GIVE it to you, you are very lucky.I Wish you luck, I have someone calling or coming by once a week asking to give them our old lead weights. the answer is always NO |
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Where can someone sell lead? And what does it bring per pound?
I've got a fair bit, but I'm thinking it'll be probably pretty difficult to recover. Just curious to see what it might bring, to see if it's worth the effort to try to get it, or if it's better just left where it is. |
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I've tried a couple of scrap metal places, but no interest. Any scrap place that buys old car batteries should be very willing to buy scrap lead. I know the scrapyard in Dawsonville would take it. Not sure what the going price is, though, but for a while you could sell an old battery for more than the core charge to turn it back in. |
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Thanks for the heads-up. I tried the two scrap yards out here in the boonies, and they weren't interested. Their price would have probably been 1/2-2/3 what a place near Atlanta would be, if they even took it, anyway. I guess I need to do some Google goodness on ATL scrap yards, and make a few phone calls, to see where the market is.
Hmmmmm: Lead is trading on the commodities market at about $.80/lb, so (just guessing) I'd probably be lucky to get $.40/lb at a scrap yard. BUT: It looks like 1/2 to one pound ingots are selling on ebay and amazon, depending on quantity, for roughly $1.25-$2.50/lb. I might just ought to recover, smelt, cast, and retail it thru GON, Craigslist, theOutdoorstrader, etc. for a better return..... <food for thought> |
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Where can someone sell lead? And what does it bring per pound? I've got a fair bit, but I'm thinking it'll be probably pretty difficult to recover. Just curious to see what it might bring, to see if it's worth the effort to try to get it, or if it's better just left where it is. Is what you have pure lead or alloyed? |
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Is what you have pure lead or alloyed? Quoted:
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Where can someone sell lead? And what does it bring per pound? I've got a fair bit, but I'm thinking it'll be probably pretty difficult to recover. Just curious to see what it might bring, to see if it's worth the effort to try to get it, or if it's better just left where it is. Is what you have pure lead or alloyed? Dunno for sure. I was on a web site, earlier today, that manufactures and sells bulk ingots. That site made me think it probably has 3% antimoney. But that'd just be an educated guess on my part, based on the alloy they sell, that they suggest should be used for this particular application. I doubt there's any way to know for a certainty, though, because this stuff was cast roughly 50 years ago, sometime between '65 and '68. It could just as easily be pure lead. If I were to recover and cast this stuff, is there an economical way to test it, to know for sure what it is? Or does it really make all that much difference, in the grand scheme of things? I am obviously NOT a lead expert!!! 
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X-ray shielding? or weights.....most likely it is close to being pure if it is just for weight/shielding Ballast for a sailboat. Same as you, I suspect pure, or very close to it. It would make sense for it to weigh the maximum possible, and be as compact as possible, hence, as pure as possible, unless alloying with a small % of antimony would give it some corrosion resistance, and/or helped it to be slightly less "squishy". I see no real need for extreme strength or toughness, as I would imagine being encased in lots fiberglass would give it all the protection it needed. |
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Ballast for a sailboat. Same as you, I suspect pure, or very close to it. It would make sense for it to weigh the maximum possible, and be as compact as possible, hence, as pure as possible, unless alloying with a small % of antimony would give it some corrosion resistance, and/or helped it to be slightly less "squishy". I see no real need for extreme strength or toughness, as I would imagine being encased in lots fiberglass would give it all the protection it needed. Quoted:
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X-ray shielding? or weights.....most likely it is close to being pure if it is just for weight/shielding Ballast for a sailboat. Same as you, I suspect pure, or very close to it. It would make sense for it to weigh the maximum possible, and be as compact as possible, hence, as pure as possible, unless alloying with a small % of antimony would give it some corrosion resistance, and/or helped it to be slightly less "squishy". I see no real need for extreme strength or toughness, as I would imagine being encased in lots fiberglass would give it all the protection it needed. The boat any good? I'm always looking for my next boat 
The usual way to scrap a sailboat is with a resperator and chain saw. |
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The boat any good? I'm always looking for my next boat
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X-ray shielding? or weights.....most likely it is close to being pure if it is just for weight/shielding Ballast for a sailboat. Same as you, I suspect pure, or very close to it. It would make sense for it to weigh the maximum possible, and be as compact as possible, hence, as pure as possible, unless alloying with a small % of antimony would give it some corrosion resistance, and/or helped it to be slightly less "squishy". I see no real need for extreme strength or toughness, as I would imagine being encased in lots fiberglass would give it all the protection it needed. The boat any good? I'm always looking for my next boat
The usual way to scrap a sailboat is with a resperator and chain saw. WRONG! What ever you do, do not use a chainsaw.... This requires significant tannerite and a rifle at the next GaHTF shoot! |
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Naw, GeorgiaB the boat has had it.
We got started trying to restore it back about 15 years ago, but it was too far gone. The balsa core on the deck was rotted out in too many places, and all the bulkheads needed replacing too. By the time we got done gutting it, we were going to basically have to build a new boat!!! 
GaJeep, EXCELLENT idea. It's currently laying kinda on it's side. I'll let you figure out how to get it down to the range. Oh, and please bring a suitable trailer and a way to hoist it on there.....
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Ballast for a sailboat. Same as you, I suspect pure, or very close to it. It would make sense for it to weigh the maximum possible, and be as compact as possible, hence, as pure as possible, unless alloying with a small % of antimony would give it some corrosion resistance, and/or helped it to be slightly less "squishy". I see no real need for extreme strength or toughness, as I would imagine being encased in lots fiberglass would give it all the protection it needed. Quoted:
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X-ray shielding? or weights.....most likely it is close to being pure if it is just for weight/shielding Ballast for a sailboat. Same as you, I suspect pure, or very close to it. It would make sense for it to weigh the maximum possible, and be as compact as possible, hence, as pure as possible, unless alloying with a small % of antimony would give it some corrosion resistance, and/or helped it to be slightly less "squishy". I see no real need for extreme strength or toughness, as I would imagine being encased in lots fiberglass would give it all the protection it needed. I'd love to get some of that lead off of ya. My Martini Henry shoots a 480 gr slug and I go through lead quick and wheel weights are getting harder to find. That last lead I saw from a boat ballast was NOT pur lead, but shot that was poured into the ballast and sealed. At this point it is corroded into one large lump and will need to broken up with a sledge once the fiberglass is opened. |
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Quoted: . Anybody have or want to sell some scrap lead? I am looking to melt and pour a 15 to 25 pound brick/block with a carrying handle/strap in it to fit in the tray of a Caldwell Solo. |
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Naw, GeorgiaB the boat has had it. We got started trying to restore it back about 15 years ago, but it was too far gone. The balsa core on the deck was rotted out in too many places, and all the bulkheads needed replacing too. By the time we got done gutting it, we were going to basically have to build a new boat!!!
GaJeep, EXCELLENT idea. It's currently laying kinda on it's side. I'll let you figure out how to get it down to the range. Oh, and please bring a suitable trailer and a way to hoist it on there.....
http://<a href=http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad9/GaPawn/c-31_weight.jpg</a>" /> I think I would crack it open with a excavator Once the shot is out use the machine to cram the boat into a dumpster |
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This thing's been sitting there for a loooong time. And quite frankly, with working 6 days/week,w and church on Sunday, I'm not really in a position to tackle it in the forseeable future. If/when I do, I suspect I'll carve the upper hull and deck off of the keel/lower hull with a chainsawand/or reciprocating saw, In small handleable pieces. The excavator idea is a good one! But since I don't own one, nor have access to one, I'm sure I'll be slicing and dicing, not raining wholesale havoc on it. It'll be a LOT of hard, sweaty, dangerous work that I am simply not in any hurry to undertake.
Yes, the specifications say "lead." But the configuration and composition of the ballast could be nearly any sort of lead alloy, some much more suited to our casting purposes than others. From what research I've done over the last few days, the ballast could be either shot, or ingots of nearly any size. There is no way, that I have been able to discern, to know in advance what might be lurking under all that fiberglass. However, I am pretty durn certain there is approximately 1.7 tons of lead in there, based on the Columbia Yacht Corp. specs. This is definately not a "Geraldo Rivera, Al Capone's Vault" scenario. But, exactly what physical shape, or alloy of lead, it might be, is anyone's guess. Now you know why I was curious as to the price of lead. At $5/lb, "WHERE"S MY CHAINSAW!!!!!!" 
At $.50/lb, meh  , that's a LOT of blood,sweat, and tears for $1700 worth of something, before expenses, that I'd rather keep for casting some day, anyway.
Besides, it's kinda nice knowing I've got a lead mine in the backyard. That's a LOT of boolits come SHTF!!!! 
I will say this: if/when I do decide to start mining, I'll likely post here for interested parties who might care to share in the booty!!!
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