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Rich I found a bunch of lead at the scrap yard by accident and then the guy saved it for me but the city of Pittsburgh was replacing the old lead main lines so I had pretty good timing to be able to get it and I wasn't very picky what I got because I was melting it down to pour into moulds
grab all the lead scrap you can get your hands on, its getting far harder to locate, and much more expensive,
and some areas even forbid you from using cast lead bullets, even at target ranges
example
and some areas even forbid you from using cast lead bullets, even at target ranges
example
The last remaining lead plant closed in 2014 in MO. I think we are still mining it, just not processing anymore. I believe China buys all the lead too.
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Last Remaining Lead Smelter In The USA Closing After 120 Years -
Suddenly the US Army’s obsession with lead-free ammunition makes perfect sense, it was about security not the environment. A reader writes … The last remaining lead smelter, in Herculaneum MO, is closing down. This will undoubtedly affect the price of lead, since the lead that is mined in...
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Oh, the dealer already filled the tires with RimGard. $792 at $4 per gallon for the rear tires, man are those tires big! It’s pure Beet Juice btw. Lots of farmers will use the cheapest wiper fluid but Beet juice is dense and weighs much more. And if you get a flat you’re not spilling toxic fluid to the ground.
About 7-8 years back I stopped by a local small tire shop and collected a few fistfuls of lead wheel weights. It was an old and dumpy looking place so these weights were just strewn all over the ground. I melted what I had to do some bodywork.
I have a load of copper saved for the past 25 years. Every now and then I check the prices and it seems I never catch the high times of the market. They busted the scraper in town for smelting pennies. Seems he was paying $1.50 for each 100 pennies dated before the Feds eliminated copper from pennies. An auction picker I know was making money sitting at a table sorting through 10 of thousands of pennies at this guy’s shop. The deal was a 50/50 split for finding dates that were highly desirable for errors, double strikes and so on.