Where to get lead

[Gunner]

Where do you guys get lead for free or cheap? Im looking for scrap lead to clean up and then cast

[DFBrews]

Where do you guys get lead for free or cheap? Im looking for scrap lead to clean up and then cast

I have had luck at tire shops just ask them for the wheel weight lead it is getting harder to find though as many wheel weights are zinc now a days.

[Gunner]

Yeah I called discount they have a contract to send it back. He said I can have a handful. I have a friend who works there I'm going to try to have him get me some

[rondog]

There's a feller here trying to sell 45lbs. of WW ingots ready for casting, for $55. Do a search.

[spencerhenry]

the various metal recyclers buy lead, i would imagine that they sell it too. i think they pay about 45 cents a pound for range scrap. wheel weights are a decent alloy, but recycled bullets might be a little soft, and pure lead is not much good unless you add some tin.
there are a bunch of ads on ebay all the time, and some on gunbroker. lead that is theoretically ready to cast with usually goes for about $1/pound minimum. the good alloys like 98/2 can sometimes go for close to $2 /pound.

[Great-Kazoo]

how much lead you interested in? i have about 100 lbs of the stuff. it is lead, not a zinc mix. all you need to do is add some silver solder (which i also have) or something else??? to get a good hard cast bullet.

[Gunner]

Honestly I don't know how much lead I know. I'm new to casting to enough for 1k rounds 9mm and 45

[coop68]

Honestly I don't know how much lead I know. I'm new to casting to enough for 1k rounds 9mm and 45

i think it would come down more to what weight you plan to make your 9mm and 45acp casts! i haven't gotten into the whole casting thing yet due to cost and mostly time with my situation.

I would assume a simple conversion pounds to Grains would get you a close idea what you might need!

1 pound = 7000 grains same as when figuring out how many rounds i get out of a pound of powder proximally .

example if you decided to cast 200gr bullets i would assume you would get around 35 bullets give or take a few per pound meaning you need around 29 pounds or i would say 30 to give your self wiggle room for 45acp.


I could be Way off, but how i would approach it first go!
coop

[Gunner]

You hit it on the head. I need to sit down and do the math. My friend got me some tire weights so that's a start

[rondog]

I'm sure there's a certain amount of funk and spooge that is going to come off the lead you melt, that will represent quite a bit of the weight you start out with. Probably best to gather as much lead as you can, getting harder to find anyway.

I haven't tried it yet, too lazy and too damn many projects already. I've also got more bullets than I'll likely ever get loaded as it is. But I do have some lead stashed away, not a ton but more than I want to mess around with moving. I really do need to melt it down into ingots for storage reasons if nothing else.