lead

[tjwatty]

Good luck,
I tried to find a commodity listing for lead but I'm just not a computer wiz, best I could find was $1500 a ton. I know it's gone way way up in the last year but I thougt it was around 5 or 6 hundred a ton. I have cat food cans full of wheel weight lead for our decoys and I'm thinking of selling now.
Wheel weight lead is very dirty lead, it has clips in it that need to be skimed off. DO NOT use a fishing weight pot to melt it, you will ruin it. We used a small cast iron pot on a turkey cooker and used a torch to get started. Don't completely empty the pot and it will melt faster. The metal clips will come to the surface and can be skimmed off with a metal ladel.
After you have you ingots poured that lead is a much better quality and can be re-melted in a pot.
Everyone probably already knows that to make a strip mold just router a couple of lines in a 2x4 and pour away.
Most of the lead we can get ahold of now goes to making shot for trap and skeet shooting.
Good luck finding it..