I found an outlet that has wheel weights already poured into 1 pound ingots. Looking for strictly use of fishing weights. It is hard lead. Should i buy, the price is $3 per pound. Large volume discount possible.
Just wondering if its worth my time and money.
Thanks for your help.
Sarge

People melt those down all the time to make jigs.

I've made lots of cast bullets out of wheel weights. Works great for that, just about the perfect hardness to not lead the barrel, yet still expand on game. If they are already melted and poured into ingots you don't have to worry about getting the shiny ones that don't melt, and I would think they would work fine for sinkers. I don't know about the price, I got a five gallon bucket and a half of them free years ago and haven't used them up.

I've used them

I've used them, still have a few hundred lbs.

Seems high to me, quick look, $2/lb going rate for lead ingots here, but I can't pay for what I can scrounge.

A buddy has a BIG chunk that was ballast in a sailboat, been sitting in his shed 30+ years.

I would think you could buy sinkers for $3 a pound. Sure does not sound like any saving in that. I mold jig heads and use free wheel weight and a bought 150 lb of soft lead for .25 per pound. Then it is worth your time.

Scrap price is less than a dollar

Scarf 'em up while you can, wheel weights are mostly made of zinc or some kind of heavy plastic now.

I save all my wheel weights for casting bullets. They are getting hard to find now days

I use pure lead for sinkers and jigs

That is what I use for making sinkers for my ditty poles.

You haven't bought sinkers recently. They are stupidly expensive, but so are the jigs and melting pots. The labor is what gets you, you're right on that, but I don't mind doing it. They don't sell the ones I make. My low tech set up...

If you're serious about making your own weights. I would scrounge around and shop a bit first before just bought at $3 lb. I've poured a lot of lead over years. Paid little or nothing for most of it.

Mac

3 dollars is high.you can buy pure lead for less than that.I would not pay that.you can get wheel weights give to you for free from most of the small tire shops

I Have PURE One Pound Ingots for $1

I have problems with wheel weights fully filling jig heads 1/16 ounce or smaller. They work fine on big stuff.

I very seldom use a sinker and if I do it is going to be a 1/2 or 3/8s oz egg sinker. I fish jig 99+ % of the time. 1/4 and 1/8 oz jigs. A plain jig head with a minnow on it. How heavy are those eggs you mold ADC? I used some about that size hand lining in the ocean.

Send the guys a couple of pizzas for lunch every now and then and you will have all the wheel weights you ever need.

Modern wheel weights ain't what they were.

Jeez, I switched from 4 oz to 5, and then 6 once the tide started running.
Left a few 80' down in a wreck too, $$$

Used them a lot got a bunch of lead pipe out in the shop