Scored some wheel weights!

[ACORN]

A friend of mine asked me to come to his workplace to look over some merchandise they were looking to liquidate and give them an idea on value.
There were 5 5gal buckets of new loose wheel weights from 1/4 oz up to probably 4-5oz truck weights. He mentioned they were probably going to sell them for scrap price.
My ears perked up!
Long story short there is about 250lb they sold to me for $26.
I’m giving half to my good friend so even then I have 125lb for $26 a little over .20 a pound.
The sweet part is they all appear to be lead. No zinc. And there is none of the crud that comes when you get them from a tire shop, tire valves cigarette butts, nuts bolts, UFOs etc.
I honestly think they could go directly to my casting furnace, but they won’t.

 

[Liftrat]

Nice score! "Real" wheel weights have become so scarce that I don't even bother looking for them, so it sounds like you did very well. 125 lbs shouls keep you shooting for quite a while .

 

[Greyman50]

Have friends with a auto repair shop, they mount tires some time so they have buckets full of weights they save for me. Friend in I were out bumming one Saturday when we found about 200 lbs of clean type set in an antique shop. Fixed for life.

 

[DeplorabusUnum]

Nice haul indeed. I'm jealous. My lead scrounging is collecting lead under the targets at the range. A little bit here, a little bit there. Would be nice score a few buckets and be set for life.

 

[reddog81]

Wheel weights are getting harder and harder to find. I picked up 5 full buckets at the beginning of Covid and sorted them and melted them over a few months I don’t think I’ve seen any on Craigslist since then.

I’ve never had new clean weights but it seems like it’d be logical to just melt them into bullets and not worry about smelting them into ingots.