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27 May 2008, 06:35
Idaho Sharpshooter
five hours work...
spent a couple half days last week scrounging wheel weights. $30 per gallon bucket full at four different tire stores. Eleven buckets to show for the $$$ outlay.

Five hours and a forty pound bottle of propane later, I got 200 4lb ingots fluxed and cooling in the shed.

What an afternoon's work. I use a turkey cooker with an eight quart dutch oven.

Rich
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27 May 2008, 07:39
Idaho Ron
I got a free bucket of WW from a friend with a shop. I haven't had a chance to melt it yet. Ron
29 May 2008, 08:25
Lar45
Was that a 1 gallon bucket?? or 5 gallon bucket?

I knew the price was going up, but ??


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29 May 2008, 10:31
Idaho Sharpshooter
the one gallon black buckets you see at tire shops.
75+ pounds worth. The competition is getting fierce here. I had three different shops tell me their WW suppliers are wanting the used ones back as trade-in for new. One guy said they told him his price for new would go up 50-cents a pound unless he had the used ones ready to go when he came by.

Rich
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29 May 2008, 23:05
RIP
Heroic! clap
Hopefully we won't be relegated to ordering lead alloy from Midway. That would take some of the satisfaction out of casting.
30 May 2008, 00:05
mstarling
Wonderfully successful way to spend a day. Congratulations!

Am down to my last 200 pounds of ingots. Going to have to bite the bullet and go see if I can locate some more. Really dread that with the way prices have been going.


Mike

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30 May 2008, 08:42
Idaho Sharpshooter
I guess I'm lucky, my brother in St Louis county is paying $1 a pound, and gets to sort the sticky zinc ones out. I got about $275 in 246 4 pounders.

Rich
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30 May 2008, 16:31
Lloyd Smale
those are 5 gallon pails. Youd never get 75 lbs of ww in a one gallon bucket.
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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
the one gallon black buckets you see at tire shops.
75+ pounds worth. The competition is getting fierce here. I had three different shops tell me their WW suppliers are wanting the used ones back as trade-in for new. One guy said they told him his price for new would go up 50-cents a pound unless he had the used ones ready to go when he came by.

Rich
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30 May 2008, 20:10
Idaho Sharpshooter
you must not pile them very high. I weigh mine when I get home.

Rich
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