Try a gun range. Especially an indoor range with a sand backstop. They
have to sift tons of bullet lead out of the sand every month or so and
would be glad to get 5 or 6 cents a pound for it.

mike worrall wrote:
I've begun stacking rectangular lead 'pigs' into my internally
ballasted keel cavity. Becuase the pigs ARE retangular, and the keel
is not, there are some 'voids' or 'vacancies' into which I hope to
pour lead shot so as to fill these voids. I figure I'll need a couple
hundred lbs.

I've discovered a few sites on the 'Net selling 25lb bags for $15, but
am hoping that the assembled brain-trust can suggest a less expensive
option.

Mike Worrall
Los Angeles

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Glenn Ashmore

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Try Mars Metals in canada, I've used lead shot from them for the exact
purpose you describe. I'm not sure of the price, but if you are in the US i'm
sure that the exchange rate would be in your favor! at least will be enough to
offset the cost of shipping.

Jared Crane

Mars is going to want market price which right now is over 60
cents/pound plus shipping. Spend bullet lead from the local gun range
is 6 to 8 cents at most. Probably some copper jackets in it but that
would be less trouble than steel tire clips.

JayCeeCG wrote:
Try Mars Metals in canada, I've used lead shot from them for the exact
purpose you describe. I'm not sure of the price, but if you are in the US i'm
sure that the exchange rate would be in your favor! at least will be enough to
offset the cost of shipping.

Jared Crane


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Glenn Ashmore wrote in message news:bv4zc.913$3W3.702@lakeread04...
Mars is going to want market price which right now is over 60
cents/pound plus shipping. Spend bullet lead from the local gun range
is 6 to 8 cents at most. Probably some copper jackets in it but that
would be less trouble than steel tire clips.

JayCeeCG wrote:
Try Mars Metals in canada, I've used lead shot from them for the exact
purpose you describe. I'm not sure of the price, but if you are in the US i'm
sure that the exchange rate would be in your favor! at least will be enough to
offset the cost of shipping.

Jared Crane


Check a scrap dealer. I once got some lead cable shielding for a very
low price. I think it had been used to cover cable TV cables but am
not sure. It had a lot of tar on it. You can flatten these and push
them down alongside your lead blocks.

"Glenn Ashmore" writes:

Spend bullet lead from the local gun range
is 6 to 8 cents at most.

Maybe where you are, but not in SoCal.

Probably some copper jackets in it but that
would be less trouble than steel tire clips.

Also, expect to find some live ammo.

As you melt it down a bucket of "resource", you sometimes get a "pop", not a
"boom", just a pop.

If you don't melt down and clean up shooting range "resource", expect to
find at least 20% useless scrap, at least that was my experience.


--
Lew

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Lew Hodgett wrote:

Also, expect to find some live ammo.

Unlikely at most indoor ranges. Live ammo is always at the other end of
the range.

As you melt it down a bucket of "resource", you sometimes get a "pop", not a
"boom", just a pop.

Probably right but just add half a gram of water and see what happens. :-)

If you don't melt down and clean up shooting range "resource", expect to
find at least 20% useless scrap, at least that was my experience.

I was not suggesting he melt it. Just use it as is. It is just about
the right mix of sizes for filling between lead pigs.

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"Glenn Ashmore" writes:

Unlikely at most indoor ranges. Live ammo is always at the other end of
the range.

That was not my experience with both public and private ranges such as the
sheriff of Los Angeles County or various city ranges used by the police
departrments.

Probably right but just add half a gram of water and see what happens.
:-)

No thank you.

I was not suggesting he melt it. Just use it as is.

I was aware of that.

Trust me, shooting range "resource" is full of crap, especially dirt, or
what masquerades as dirt.

Melting down about 500 lbs of range "resource" will yield about 360 lbs of
lead pigs. The rest is scrap.

At least that was my experience.

Maybe others will accept this garbage as part of their keel ballast, I
wouldn't and didn't.

BTW, probably melted down more than 20,000 lbs of range "resource" to get my
ballast lead. This included about 10,000 lbs of clean lead pigs that were
stolen.

Remind me to tell you the story about the convicts who loaded range
"resource" sometime.

It was quite an experience.


HTH


--
Lew

S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland)
Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures

Uh, is that stolen FROM you or BY you? (g)

"Glenn Ashmore" writes:
snip
BTW, probably melted down more than 20,000 lbs of range "resource" to get
my
ballast lead. This included about 10,000 lbs of clean lead pigs that were
stolen.

Lew Hodgett wrote:

Trust me, shooting range "resource" is full of crap, especially dirt, or
what masquerades as dirt.

Melting down about 500 lbs of range "resource" will yield about 360 lbs of
lead pigs. The rest is scrap.

At least that was my experience.

Odd, I got much better yield out of bullet lead than I did out of wheel
weights. I just couldn't use more than about 1,000 lbs because I
needed the antimony in the wheel weights. Maybe the indoor sand
backstop made a difference.

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Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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