Time to fry some brain cells (aka melting lead)

[fish-n-geek]

Its that time of year when I'm going through the tackle box and finding I'm short on jigs again. I'll be getting out the melting pot in the next couple of weeks and making new jigs and sinkers. As always, I'll be melting down the jigs that are getting rusty, broken, bent, etc and using up slag from prior casts, but where does everyone get their lead?

I'm looking at using some scrap pipe ($0.55 per pound) rather than paying for "cleaner" ingots. I know a couple people use radiation doors, but those are hard to come by :-)

How much are you paying for lead these days? Ingots? Pipe? Doors?

-rus-

[Dan Thiem]

Would old wheel weights work? We get buckets full of them at work.

[FISHER ED]

Old wheel weights are what we use for molding jig for our shop. Just get a small bucket of them from the local tire shop when we need them. Give your local guy a call, might just cost you a handful of jigs

[abens1078]

This probably won't help you but I was so happy when I found this out. One summer I worked for a construction company that had been selected to replace the windows in a local college dormitory. Well as some of you know, old windows used to sit on top of a lead strip(apparently it served as a moisture guard) that was about 1" by 1/4" and went the width of the window. 3 of us split about 200lbs of lead that would have just been thrown out.

My suggestion would be to check with any local contractors to see if they've come across this in remodeling projects. Lead was used for more then just pipes...... paint chips mmmmmmmm

[Northlander]

We have used old lead off of semi tires and window lead as well. If you know someone who does a lot of windows and get them to save you the lead your set.