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It's becoming more and more scarce.

Lead paint, solder, wheel weights are all, or soon will be a thing of the past.

Lead bullets, sinkers and curtain weights are gubermint targets.

I believe there will always be a demand/market for lead. For example I was recently shocked at the price of mercury.

Lead is non corrosive and takes very litle space.

What are ya'lls thoughts on this issue?

Hey, I forgot all about window sash weights. Them bee-yotches are heavy! Excellent source of metal for the reload market (soon to be blackmarket).

Lead...yeah, why not? The way things are going, anything metal is bound to be valued more than anything else, except maybe silicon. Or is silicon a metal, too?

Once the Looming Fecal Cliff is in the rearview mirror I would look for value jumps in all base metals.

Doesn't all that really just mean there's less demand for it? If they stopped putting silver in computers, that would make the price go down, not up.

I have a few coffee cans full of lead. I figure it doesn't hurt to keep some sitting around.

car batteries are a great source of lead

justoneguy wrote:car batteries are a great source of lead

But you have the acid to worry about....

I would like to stock pile some lead. I have a friend who casts his own sabot slugs for hunting. It has been on my mind lately. Spending $18 for a box of 5 slugs for hunting doesn't sit well with me. My friend makes his own for $1 each.

Are you saying that lead is readily available? Is it still used for wheel weights? I have a friend who owns a junk yard. I thought that I would see if I could go harvest a couple of 5 gal buckes of them.

If I do end up hoarding lead, who can my widow give it away to after she finishes pile driving me into a grave that I will no doubt be happy to finally be in?

knibloe wrote:I would like to stock pile some lead. I have a friend who casts his own sabot slugs for hunting. It has been on my mind lately. Spending $18 for a box of 5 slugs for hunting doesn't sit well with me. My friend makes his own for $1 each.

Are you saying that lead is readily available? Is it still used for wheel weights? I have a friend who owns a junk yard. I thought that I would see if I could go harvest a couple of 5 gal buckes of them.

Lead is still used for wheel weights. The best way to store lead is by having it attached to a brass casing.

Funny this is mentioned. I just got back from hunting camp where a buddy mentioned he had a pallet of lead in the garage from his father who cast bullets and such. Was thinking of making an offer but have no idea what lead goes for these days. Mostly in the form of bars and wheel weights. Any ideas? Thanks

Remember in the good old days the best drain lines were made of cast iron pipe? Before PVC and ABS. The plumber would caulk the hub of the pipe and then pour in molten lead to seal it. Hot work in the summer in Houston. Most plumbing supply houses probably don't carry the lead bars any longer, but they certainly have the lead sheets for roof jacks and under tile showers. Cheap? I don't know.

When I was a teen I made money for scuba trips by melting lead wheel weights and casting them into scuba weights. Sold them to the local dive shops.

Forget bullets.. Think batteries, battery in just about everything these days. It's likely, with everyone else's eyes on gold & silver that lead would be overlooked until.., the inevitable. The trick is to amass enough of any metal to make the trip into the big city where buyers pay more, around where I live it's a total con job. Let's say your willing to wait for lead to go to back to 1.50 or 2.00 lb. might not be all that long, especially if war keeps breaking out. Put an add in the paper paying 50 cents a lb., or the same as the local recyclers pay and start hoarding lead. Sometimes I think some of these low dollar metals have as much potential as anything. Prices.
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/

justoneguy wrote:car batteries are a great source of lead

How much lead in a car battery?

Yeah, I got a couple hundred pounds of lead hoarded. How much? I dunno. I just grab it up every time I find it.

It is so easy to store. It does not rust. It just sits there under my house and minds it's own business until I am ready to use it.

Many print shops still use lots of lead in their print machines. They buy "pigs" of lead bar ingots for their printing press machines.

Commercial roofers, and plumbers, will sell you lots of used lead, cheap!

Be sure to rinse out all the lead you get from those plumbers, now. How does that old Plumbers saying go? "Payday's Friday, sh!t runs downhill, and NEVER work with your mouth open!"

if you mean just plain lead, well its a commodity but not a monetary one. its also very bulky. the monetary commodities reasonably can be expected to increase in value more rapidly, and as a side benefit are a more dense/compact store of value.

if you are open to alternatives, consider food. coffee has more than doubled in a few years.

Lemon Thrower wrote:if you mean just plain lead, well its a commodity but not a monetary one. its also very bulky. the monetary commodities reasonably can be expected to increase in value more rapidly, and as a side benefit are a more dense/compact store of value.

if you are open to alternatives, consider food. coffee has more than doubled in a few years.

Very true, but lead is the most priceless metal of all when you need it most.

I am taking my truck in tomorrow to have the tires balanced...i will remove all the wieghts first. the start of my new metal hoard.