Used Wheel Weight Lead. ? What is a Fair Price

Well a decent price would be scrap metal prices az that's what most recycle places classify it as. It is lead and steel mix. The scrap guy who picks up our metal at work pays. .08/lb for the wheel weights we have. I get what little we produce.
I was more than happy to pay 20 for 5gallon bucket 3/4 full in the beginning. Steel wheel weights are quickly showing up in greater numbers. Last batch was only about 40% lead
Other than old stashes of wheel weights I beenrunning about 50% useable lead from my few sources. I cant see any reason to pay more than 20 cents /lb.

If your going to pay more than that its easier to buy pre smelted wheel weights online. Last I checked you could find it for about 1.25lb shipped. Depending on alloy type new lead in proper bullet alloy can be purchased also.
Time to smelt is a consideration also.
in the mean time get any lead you can.
I used to get all lead wheel weights from a garage for. 15/lb. Sorted 100% lead also sorted the stick ons. I later found out he sells off hunks of his stash to buy nice clean virgin alloy for his long range nra cast boolit shooting..I think I bought the last of his stuff as I have not seen him or his truck around in sometime.

would battery led be OK for bullets? i personally do not cast but i did hear enough about it to know that led alloy for bullets should meet certain hardness requirements?

Battery terminals from the tops of batteries is soft lead, not very good for modern calibers and the plates in batteries are a toxic mix of chemicals that is not worth messing with according to most if not everyone on castboolits. No way would I mess with batteries and trying to recover the internal lead from them, way too risky.

The terminal tops, with the connectors from a car are used by some as dead soft lead and then alloyed with wheel weights or other harder alloys of lead to get a decent bullet for modern cartridges. many use dead soft / WW at 50/50 mix but mostly do this to stretch out their WW stash.

Believe me DO NOT MESS WITH BATTERIES...1st off the " lead " is of little use to casting. I tossed a battery in a very hot coal fired fire. What was left was a mess
a huge awful stink and nasty ass smoke. This battery had been sitting in my yard for God knows how long. Here when I moved in. I figured the lead would just pool on the bottom of the fire....not. best beg is to get what you can ag the scrap yard for batteries.

There are still a lot of places helping us out with lead. Problem being is there is less lead and seems like more people looking. There's at least 6 shops around me that will sell thier lead to you. Getting there when the bucket is full is the hard part. I have one small source who will give me his wheel weights I get them 1st week of November just s few lbs though. Also see if your local club will allow you to take some lead from indoor range or off the ground. I have been useing range scrap for my lower velocity 9 and 45 plinking ammo.

Originally Posted by dnepro-mike

would battery led be OK for bullets? i personally do not cast but i did hear enough about it to know that led alloy for bullets should meet certain hardness requirements?

Lead hardness does matter but does not always need to be hard
http://www.lasc.us/indexBrennan.htm good info here and also cast bullet association. Com

Originally Posted by mac1911

Lead hardness does matter but does not always need to be hard
http://www.lasc.us/indexBrennan.htm good info here and also cast bullet association. Com

1.) How many actually of you bullet casters have a hardness tool, to test lead hardness after casting? Is this something I need to invest in? If I want to be safe and do it properly?

2.) Did you mean the: http://www.castbulletassoc.org/

Thanks for the additional info...