Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Recycling Lead

Hey Frank

We collect 600 to 1000 lbs of wheel weights a month from about 10 stores. The owner gets 17 cents, the shop guys get 3 cents a pound in the form of candy, and after we process them down the final cost is 27 cents. The candy is the key to success. It keeps the guys from just sweeping them up with the trash.

If you can buy lead ingots at 20 cents a pound, do it! I'll pay you 25 cents a pound if you bring it to Tulsa. : ) It's getting harder to find stores that will sell them to you here too. The manufactures are offering good buy back plans, and a lot of stores are reusing their old weights. That by the way is a bad practice because they will more easily fall off.

We have a lot of details on our smelters here: www.submarineboat.com/working_with_lead.htm

We just did a video on our wood fired smelter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-N-2Jgkr8

Best of Luck
Lead Belly Jackson

Hi Brent. I contacted a few tire shops near me, and each had a guy who came and bought the old wheel weights. One guy said he got $3 a pound but I kind of doubt that. Way more than I was willing to pay. My best guess is 1800 LBS. for mine. I gathered about 100 pounds of them and did some melting. Pretty easy to get clean lead bricks. Anyway, I found a guy who has about 2000 lbs. in the small ingot shape, and he's selling me 1500 lbs. for $350. The rest he's saving for shot reloads. Ebay has several places at about $1 per pound. It's getting hard to find lead now in Calif. Frank D.

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