Where do I find Scrap Lead? - Page 2

Check with an indoor shooting range, they capture all the bullets anyway, might get a good deal. The copper jacketed ones would be worth more.

Marina"s usually have alot of it and pay to get rid of it

There is about 160000lbs of it coming up for auction next week in virginia. priobably more than you are looking for and it needs to be mutilated, but its there.

Check with your local water department and see what they do with their old lead goosenecks as they take them out. Back in the day of ductile and cast water mains and galvanized service lines the bend from the main was accomplished with a corp stop and a lead gooseneck. We give them away for bullets all the time.

I am new here so I just saw this thread but old houses used lead weights for ballasts to help raise and lower them. You might check with window companies that replace old windows or even contractors.

Originally Posted by partyguy28

I am new here so I just saw this thread but old houses used lead weights for ballasts to help raise and lower them. You might check with window companies that replace old windows or even contractors.

I have never seen any of the lead window weights. I've heard of them, but have never run across any, as of yet. I frequently remove and/or replace the cast iron weights and have a fairly decent collection.

Also...Welcome to SMF

I have heard old sailbots hull/deck is solid lead? supposidly there is a ton of it and it also weighs a ton.

my significant other has a lot of lead.we are I phoenix z.

Babbit Works Like Lead too , You can find it from farmers exc..

But We all like lead for Scrap , i am not Young anymore , but i know of a place that you can chop it out of the rock with a axe , but its on georgian bay in northern ontario , and you also need a boat and someone that knows the waterway as well as where it is.

To late this time of year for me to go back and the wind is to stormy this time of year to chance it again.

Originally Posted by warhorse20000

Babbit Works Like Lead too , You can find it from farmers exc..

But We all like lead for Scrap , i am not Young anymore , but i know of a place that you can chop it out of the rock with a axe , but its on georgian bay in northern ontario , and you also need a boat and someone that knows the waterway as well as where it is.

To late this time of year for me to go back and the wind is to stormy this time of year to chance it again.

Wow dude, now THAT sounds like some kind of super cool adventure trip! Maybe it's something for a few of us to try and hook up for 2013! Seriously, axe'n out your own raw lead, right from the bush and rocks where it grew? I'd Love to spend a week there with you and a couple of others who'd dig this back to the land/pioneer way of living, wrestling money from the ground and on Georgian Bay to boot. We'd have to pack fish'n rods and tackle too of course. lb

If you need a small amount, dentists have to separate the lead foils from x-rays and save them for special disposal. It's not a lot but it is pure lead and I would imagine they would be more than happy to give it to you for free.

well if you need lead i need zinc will trade my lead for your zinc

The hospitals and other X-ray places use lead lined drywall.

I've worked with it before,
it is weird stuff, a drywall sheet with lead sheet glued to it, and heavy as hell.

That would have to come from a demo job I guess.

Check with the shooting range about buying spent bullets maybe(?)
(You could shoot those FMJ .45's that lay all over the range from a smooth-bore (like tyou mentioned, and it would have rifling grooves OR look like fired from several different pistols...)


Other than that ,
for bullets, why not just use a frozen POOP Dart?
What you do is make a mold (large bore, pointy at front /w/hollow tail),
stuff it with pooop and freeze it,
Then keep it in dry-ice until you shoot somebody with it.

That would really suck to be shot and die with a big frozen turd sticking out of the chest I imagine.
The thing that sucks is poop is DNA traceable, (I think ?) so you'd have to use somebody elses'...

It should be powered by atleast a 12 gauge would be BAD @SSS KILLER POOP DART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I go to place where people shoot into a bank when I go shooting. On a whim, I took my 2'X4' gold classifing screen (it's a wooden frame with 1/2" mesh stapled to the bottom) and a shovel and scooped up the sandy soil where the bullets impact. In six scoops I had about 20 lbs. of spent bullets. I figure if I stay there for a while, I could quickly get half a ton or so. Be sure to wear a mask if you do this, don't want to breath in any lead dust from the ground.

The first place I'd look is at roof flashings & lead head nails.
Its a hardish job by hand but the correct sort of tinsnips would work wonders.

A few days ago I was walking past the rear of a shop & noticed some lead head nails on the ground.
So I looked up & yeah, the roof has just been 'redone', brand new roofing

I've been looking all over my area for scrap lead. Haven't found anywhere willing to sell it yet. They all say they're not allowed to, or don't get any.

If anyone has any they'd be willing to sell, please PM me.

Oh, I didn't realize that. So many forums, all with different rules.

I've stopped by a few tire places, went to recycling centers, called up nuclear pharmacies, etc. All busts... So, that sounds awesome! I have an ingot mold, so whatever you want to part with is cool with me. I'm just looking to avoid ordering 10# ingots for $20 off the net.