Where do I find Scrap Lead?

I want to get as much lead as I possibly can find, ton or more and start casting my 45 air rifle bullets and shotgun loads.

Check with local mechanic shops I work at 1 and when we balance tires we are taking off the old ones to put on new ones and the old ones usually just sit in a bucket next to the wheel balance machine taking up space

Good luck finding lead wheel weights in California. On 1 Jan 2011 California outlawed the use of lead wheel weights. So what used to be almost all lead ww is quickly becoming mostly iron and zinc ww.

For lead check with plumbers, or roofers (some old flashing was lead). Check with scrap yards, although I have heard many scrap yards in California will not sell lead to the public. Check with auto parts yards, some U-Pullet_it places will let you walk through the yard and pull the lead weights off the cars. Check out sail boats, the keels on some of them are lead and can easily weigh over 1000 lbs. If all else fails check eBay or PM me and I will sell you 63 pound boxes of clean lead for $60 shipped.

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I'm looking for the exact thing in South Florida. We do use lead wheel weights here but I can't get the tire places to give them up. They all claim they either give them back to the company or have deals with scrap yards. I'll take any lead that doesn't come from batteries and have offered more than the scrap yard's. Still, I can't seem to get anywhere.

Wheel weights contain a lot of contaminates and are not intended to be used for bullets. I would stick to good clean lead if you are casting bullets for safety reasons.

I've been casting for nearly 30 years with wheel weights. Just need to smelt at the correct temp to remove the contaminates.

If you would like to get high quality lead cheap, look in your local area for a nuclear medicine service company. There are a huge number of independent service companies throughout the country (I was in the industry not that long ago). The equipment all use lead shielding and many of these companies have tens of thousands of pounds of lead (and other scrap) around. I had a friend in Miami I recently helped scrap over 100,000 pounds of lead and steel. And that was only 1/2 of one of his 2 warehouses. In the past, he had only gotten about 15 cents a pound for his lead. I got him 65 cents. he also had lots and lots of high quality boards as well from 20 year old medical equipment. Do not worry, the lead and other things ARE NOT radioactive or dangerous in any way.

You could also try the Nuclear Medicine Department of your local hospital. They always have lead they want to get rid of. Every big city also has several radiopharmacies (these are not regular pharmacies...they package radioactive drugs for hospitals). They will have a lot of lead also.

Any questions...feel free to PM me.

Someone on here not to long ago had over 300 lbs. of lead he was trying to sell, don't know who it was.

Roof flashing would be my best bet, easy to get for free, its just a pain to try & pick it all off.

Originally Posted by WallandScrap

I want to get as much lead as I possibly can find, ton or more and start casting my 45 air rifle bullets and shotgun loads.

Lots of folk selling reclaimed lead here.

Swappin & Sellin - Cast Boolits

Plenty of info on how to hunt it down for yourself too.

Enjoy!

Contact a roofer. They just toss the roof jacks in the trash. When I have time, I will cut off the vertical part. I have lots of lead from this but I am inthe roofing industry. Try contacting a commercial or residential roofer. Offer to pay him or his guys for it. They will produce alot in a short time.

I got about 175 pounds worth in different ingot sizes. Send me a PM if your interested.

my tvs andcrts lol

Originally Posted by travistemple202020

my tvs andcrts lol

How? Do you scrap the CRT's? The lead is mixed with the glass if I understand correctly. If you could tell us, that would be great.

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.