Demand for clean lead?

[Goodknight]

Is there a demand for clean sheet lead? I have approximately 100lb of x-ray shielding grade lead available.

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[Member 34319]

Someone here will be interested.

 

[DizzyJ]

For the right price I'm sure someone will bite. There's a few people here who cast their Bullets.

 

[kmk1012]

Anyone have a Geiger counter? Just playing. A friend who worked demo gave me several hundred pounds of this years back, it's very soft and pure, dare I say medical grade? Too bad you're so far away as I would be interested.

 

[Goodknight]

Lead is extra as construction is complete. This lead never made it into a x-ray room.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I have been buying and selling large amounts if scrap brass. When rendered down into I got I and selling it for $1.25 a pound.
It is easy to melt down and pour into ingots.
Your lead would be wanted by people who cast rifled slugs, #00 buckshot and blackpowder projectiles.

 

[gmerkt]

When I quit casting, I sold hundreds of pounds of lead on ebay. You can ship it by USPS Priority Mail in a Medium Flat Rate box which costs about $14.. I used to put 45# per box. I scheduled a pickup at my door with the post office. They'd come by and pick it up for free on their daily rounds. Don't forget to use the "Caution Heavy" post office label so postal workers don't get herniated lifting them wrong. I used to double the box inside to ensure intact delivery. These days, clean lead starts at $2 a pound on ebay. You trade the time and trouble of meet-ups for labor of packing and shipping.

 

[gmerkt]

I have been buying and selling large amounts if scrap brass. When rendered down into I got I and selling it for $1.25 a pound.
It is easy to melt down and pour into ingots.

Brass or lead?

 

[po18guy]

For use in smokeless powder rifle or pistol loads, the pure lead would need to be alloyed with tin and antimony. 1:10 tin-lead is the traditional formula.

 

[Papercidal]

I'd definitely take it off your hands for the right price.

 

[dangerranger60]

I have been buying and selling large amounts if scrap brass. When rendered down into I got I and selling it for $1.25 a pound.
It is easy to melt down and pour into ingots.
Your lead would be wanted by people who cast rifled slugs, #00 buckshot and blackpowder projectiles.

Roto Metals sells a Chip that contains Antimony and Tin, It makes alloy into bullet material . DR

 

[HighlandLofts]

Brass or lead?

I ment to write lead. I also buy & sell lots of range brass.
So far I bought & sold close to two tons of lead and well over two tons of range Brass.

I have well over 15,000 pieces of 40 caliber cases.

 

[Goodknight]

I ended up trading the lead for powder.

 

[gmerkt]

I ment to write lead.

Thanks, I wasn't trying to be a smarty pants. You never know, people will try anything. The melting point of brass is 1,100 degrees higher than lead +/-, so it would take a lot more heat to render brass down. To no point, really, as the metals buyers will take it in whatever form.

Decades ago, I knew a farrier. Someone gave him some platinum wire. He tried to melt it down in his forge, and tried and tried, burned up a lot of energy trying and got nowhere. His forge wasn't up to 3,200 degrees F.