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Hello all,
Another Mainer here, hoping to find some networking connection in my search to find used lead wheel weights. Have contacted a lot of local salvage yards, but most won't sell lead. With our lovely state having banned the use of lead wheel weights, and switching to zinc/steel it has been increasing difficult finding enough to keep me casting. Hopefully I can find some fellow Mainer's that might be able to help point me in the right direction.
Thanks in Advance!
Novalty
Welcome to the Forum, Novalty. Hoping somebody here can help you out with some lead. I'll keep an eye out.
Thanks Mick! I am located near the NH border too, and wouldn't mind meeting someone in the "Live Free or Die State", as I believe NH has not passed a ban on lead wheel weights...yet.
Welcome from Massachusetts.
Lead has its reputation it's earned. Use sealed containers (5 gallon pales) mark them w/w and enjoy making good $$ reselling as weights. Lead is heavy and it's weight makes you lots of $$.
Think a battery. Little 36 pound boxes of gold. Put them three layers to a pallet and boom. 2800 lbs.
70 batts at even 10 each (steal for me) is $700 if you got for free. I don't. I'm making much lower margin. You can get as much as you can buy. Batts. W/w I love too.
Hello from Ma! New to the fourm. Scrap saved my life! Aaron.
Welcome! I'm in Southern Maine also, if you go on youtube there is a guy on there called mainejunker - watch some of his videos! He can help you with some ideas on how to get lead (I'm guessing you have seen his videos since you cast).
-J
Welcome from PA. A yard local to me buys lead for 35 cents a pound and sells for .85, as a fellow caster, i hope you find somewhere to get more! Good Luck!
Well found an old garage that has probably 200-250 of wheel weight he said he would sell me for what the local yard pays. That will help out a lot. I am not brave enough to do the battery thing, but might try a scrapped sail boat if I could get my hands on one cheap enough.
This one is in Freeport.Quote:
Originally Posted by novalty
Free Sailboat The last Pearson Never finished!
Chris
Welcome From the Live free or die state.
I will ask around about wheel weights but last time i got a 5 gallon bucket over half were zinc
i get some fired lead from screening the hills at shooting ranges very dirty and a lot of copper jackets still attached don't know if it is something you would be interested in but if so I can save them up.
Thanks for the sailboat link Chris. I think that one might be a little large for my capabilities, plus I am not 100% how I would get rid of the hull demolition.
NHscrapman, I would be interested in used wheel weights if you come across some. If I can get them for around the same price my local yard pays, then I wouldn't loose out on the zinc and steel ones that wouldn't be useful to me. As for the bullets mined from the shooting range, I am not sure about figuring a cost per pound. I have seen MaineJunker on Youtube use a propane torch to heat jacketed bullets to separate the lead.