what are scrap yard paying

[redriverhunter]

i tried to get some ww's from a tire shop and they claim they can get .50 cents a pound for raw ww's at the scrap yard does this sound like the going rate thanks

[The Black Pearl]

i tried to get some ww's from a tire shop and they claim they can get .50 cents a pound for raw ww's at the scrap yard does this sound like the going rate thanks

here in northern michigan the scrap yards will give .25 a lbs for wheel weights i wont give tire shops that, i offer .20 figuring they dont have to load them, haul them nothing

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

the issue is not the scrapyards, at least not here. Our problem is the WW suppliers are now requiring a 90% exchange of old for new at the tire shops. Or at least trying to.


Rich

[Fishman]

Waco, Texas: the big scrapyard here is paying 19 cents a lb. Of course the local tire places quote retail lead value in ingot form when you ask them "How much for that bucket of wheel weights?"

[theperfessor]

It's hard enough to find WWs around here. I have a standing offer that I split the difference between what the local scrapper pays for WWs and what they charge to sell you WWs. I get them for less, the seller makes more, we all end up happy and I've yet to run out of lead.

[rexherring]

Ours is selling them for .30 per pound.

[Ole]

Really depends on the local market for wheelweights in my experience.

When I was hunting for WW's at scrapyards a couple years ago, they wanted close to spot price (around $.70) for WW's if you were buying and would offer $.20/lb if you were selling.

[clodhopper]

Scrap yard here will give 15 cents if you are selling, charges 80 cents if your buying.

[GRUMPA]

Scrap yard here charges .20Lb to buy. I really need to find another in town that just opened up and say HI.

[Blackhawk Convertable]

They are paying 20¢/lb here as of last week.

[dave22250]

scrap prices here is .40 a lb

[trapper9260]

I went to the yard one time and bought about over 700lbs of soft lead and they put the WW in for nothing. I talk the person into it and told me if I want more soft lead to come right back . I know I could do it again with them as long I have the money to do it. But I do not know how much it gose for now . Just wanted to give some one a idea if they try that way of buying lead . As for the WW there where about 64lbs of it that I got and there was only about 4 ww that was zinc. And there was a peace of wht look like soft lead was zinc also but I still came out ahead and soft lead at the time was going for .32 lb that was a few years back

[dragon813gt]

Rates are going to vary by region and yard to yard. But there are no yards by me that pay more than $.20 per pound to buy. Sounds like the shop was trying to get you to offer more than $.50 Which may not be a bad deal if they don't want to much more.


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[CGT80]

I know a guy that works in a scrap yard in SoCal. He said they buy wheel weights for 19 cents a pound and clean lead for 45 cents per pound. He didn't know what they would sell for.

[3006guns]

Local scrapper buying lead...any kind...for .15/lb. and selling it for .90/lb....I'm in the wrong end of this business.

I know, because I finally stooped to (caved in) rummaging through his 55 gal. barrel and pulled out 42 lbs. of wheel weights, sinkers, battery cable ends, etc. It's gettin' tight around here!

Still, for the $37 it cost me I figured I could make around 1200 45acp boolits....not free or cheap, but still awfully reasonable.