I was offered some wheel weights to buy. What is the going price for wheel weight lead still as wheel weights? Can someone help me out please?

I thank you kindly.

The last I knew of ww they were going for $20-$30/five gallon bucket... There is typically about 30# of scrap in a bucket, so figure roughly 70# of net, at least in my experience.

One thing to check, a lot of the new weights are not lead as we are use to. Some of the newer ones are an alloy not suitable for casting and need to be sorted out.

lots of zinc in the new ones. One will poison a pot seems like forever.

You melt the weights and turn the burner down a bit, and it looks like cottage cheese floating on the surface.

These are old wheel weights found in an old barn clean out. They look like the old fashioned clip on weights. Probably as old as me. I feel I'd be safe as the old antimony stuff. Is that what is desirable for bullet casting?

Check lead prices wheel weights well be listed scrap lead price is way down.

I've paid as high as $40 for a 5 gal. pail full. Luckily, only about 10 lbs. ended up zinc and steel. cowws make great bullets and can be made even harder if water dropped.

Her is a scrap price listing:

http://www.scrapregister.com/s...es/united-states/260


the lead is all the way at the bottom. Wheel weights are 42 cents and "soft" lead which is somewhat pure I'd imagine is currently 62 cents.

Keep in mind this is what the scrap yards can sell it for, so I suspect they will pay 50% of this price to sellers.