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11-11-2011, 03:52 PM
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Chris Blouin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Warren, RI
Posts: 3,330
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lead cost
anyone know what the current cost of lead is??
thanks.
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11-11-2011, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Lexington, MA
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11-11-2011, 04:23 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Lead is running $2-2.50 a lb on the commercial market, it can be had on CL and Ebay for $1.00-1.50 a lb depending on what you want and how clean it is.
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11-11-2011, 05:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Between the thighs
Posts: 559
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last load I bought was only .10......half ton cost 100.00....last summer and theres still tons left...but I'm not telling where. Alittle time melting it down w/free gas and bob's your uncle..clean lead.
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11-12-2011, 03:16 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grapenuts
last load I bought was only .10......half ton cost 100.00....last summer and theres still tons left...but I'm not telling where. Alittle time melting it down w/free gas and bob's your uncle..clean lead.
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Lots of good info in this helpful post  |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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11-12-2011, 05:21 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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you go Paulie G.S.
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11-12-2011, 06:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Between the thighs
Posts: 559
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Lots of good info in this helpful post |
just about as much info in this one as well  |
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11-12-2011, 07:47 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Oooh - Old Timer fight |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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11-12-2011, 08:20 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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Lol!!!!
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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11-12-2011, 08:25 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Oooh - Old Timer fight |
get the defibrillator ready 
befriend your local dump worker. Has always worked for me. |
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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11-12-2011, 08:46 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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scrap batteries were 9.00 each for the standard size .when I scapped out on WEds .
They all agree that prices are going down with the [war] ending .
That,s not going to stop them from stripping my listings
I wish they would take the whole building / then it would be easier to sell ;;   |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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11-12-2011, 10:00 AM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
Posts: 4,860
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Not nice to pick on my old bud GN...he just thought things were getting abit boring on here and felt like stirrin the pot.
U go GN |
BOAT fish do count.
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11-12-2011, 10:37 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Go to your local gun range . You can sift out a 5 gal bucket full in short time and melt it down. You get all you want from used bullets and it will prob be free. Ron
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11-12-2011, 10:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
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If you are making lots of jigs , virgin pure lead makes life a lot easier. If you are doing just a small amount , then you can melt down almost anything. I know that when Smokey and I did thousands , the pure lead made it so much easier as the optimum pouring temp stays the same. when you use scrap lead , you have to play with each crucible load to get a good pouring temp. ASlso , some crap in there can mean you have to pour at a higher temp. this means increased risk from fumes and also beats the hell out of the specialty molds we have for skin jigs. For the regular do-it aluminum molds , pouring temp just means you may have to let the molds cool more often but if you have plaster or rubber molds for specialty shapes , high pouring temps will kill them fast.
I recommend that you buy pure virgin lead in ingot form.
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Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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11-12-2011, 10:43 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by capesams
...he just thought things were getting abit boring on here and felt like stirrin the pot.
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me too!!!!  |
No boat, back in the suds.
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11-12-2011, 10:48 AM
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GrayBeards
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,132
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Old fart fight
Should I sell my stock in cialis now?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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11-12-2011, 10:50 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Cialis gives me a headache. Viagra for me!!!
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No boat, back in the suds.
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11-12-2011, 12:03 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Cialis gives me a headache. Viagra for me!!!
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They both leave me pretty stiff |
Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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11-12-2011, 12:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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A good way to melt down lead to get the slag out of it is an old 2 burner Coleman stove and a stainless pot. It's how I make my ingots and it is done outside so fumes are less of an issue.Pure lead is getting hard to find up here as most of it has been given to China by the idiot politicians.These morons want to outlaw it completely forgetting the clay is full of the stuff LOL.
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11-12-2011, 12:48 PM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
Posts: 4,860
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I found a stash of frozen turkey necks in the freezer  |
BOAT fish do count.
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11-12-2011, 01:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 91
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free to 1.50+lb, i just got some for a buck a lb, .75 a lb, .20 a lb, 300 lbs free from gun club, im lazy so i usually pay .50lb but i belong to 4 gun clubs so on nice days i can get a half bucket in less than an hour-50-60lbs..free.
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11-12-2011, 01:11 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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know what your melting guys...
There's some NASTY stuff in some of these things...such as ARSENIC....
Bullet lubes.....yick smells like my first girlfriend.
In a gas form that is just friggin nasty.
piemma who you kidding you aint' had solid wood in 10 years  |
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11-12-2011, 04:58 PM
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Formerly the_shocker
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: ricca
Posts: 730
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lead ban
i read online that the state of MA is trying to ban all lead materials used for fishing because of wildlife. maybe already passed and will be in effect for 2012 on freshwater tackle. something about the loons?
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11-12-2011, 05:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Ware/Bourne Ma.
Posts: 46
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Quote:
Originally Posted by american spirit
i read online that the state of MA is trying to ban all lead materials used for fishing because of wildlife. maybe already passed and will be in effect for 2012 on freshwater tackle. something about the loons?
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Any lead product weighing less than 1 oz. including jigs, sinkers, spinner baits ect. as of 1-1-12. Lead fishing tackle has been banned for years in all DCR resevoirs namely the Quabbin, Wachusett and there tributaries. |
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11-12-2011, 06:06 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Quote:
Originally Posted by american spirit
isomething about the loons?
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The birds? Or the people that have been smelting in less than adequately ventilated areas? |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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11-12-2011, 06:20 PM
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GrayBeards
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,132
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I heard that 
Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
The birds? Or the people that have been smelting in less than adequately ventilated areas?
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11-12-2011, 08:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 91
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ventalation???
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11-12-2011, 09:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Do it outside.
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11-13-2011, 03:47 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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piemma who you kidding you aint' had solid wood in 10 years [/QUOTE]
Now my secret is out |
No boat, back in the suds.
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11-13-2011, 05:05 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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who needs vEnTiLAtION
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