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03-21-2012, 07:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2012 07:49 AM by Skipper the cigar aFISHinodo.)
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Yesterday I managed to talk a distributor to sell me a bunch of sinkers wholesale. This guy is cheap. All over the Internet (claimed to be whoesale) prices are going for around 50 cents an ounce. I bought 100 pounds for $160. That's 10 cents an ounce.
While this was a major score, I cant believe what is happening to the price of all metals. And as prices go up, so do profits. This guy for instance, as far as I know this is his only income. He distributes for a large portion of the east coast. Last year he sold his 28 foot mako and bought a 36 foot Henriques. Like this one: ![[Image: henriques_30x_main.gif]](http://www.niemiecmarine.com/images/henriques30x/henriques_30x_main.gif) THE MAN SELLS SINKERS!!! (by the way, in case you dont know this boat goes for almost half-a-mil) Zincs on my boat used to run around $25 to change them all. Now it's over $800 (this includes labor). They filled pennies with zinc because the copper was worth around 2 cents per penny. Well, the zinc is now worth over a penny and the extra processing to copper coat the coins is expensive. I don't know where this all ends, but I'm almost glad I wont be around in another hundred years. I could just see people 3 generations form now saying to their kids: "When I was young a loaf of white bread used to cost only $17.50" (that is of course if they dont declare it carcinogenic) Jonathan Charles Axisa, my beloved son, 11/7/1979 - 7/8/2010
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03-21-2012, 12:03 PM
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Good point John. They use to throw car batteries away but no more plus there is a big core charge when you buy a new one because they rebuild them. HUGE business now. There are signs all over town "buying batteries $12" Then there are the 5 gal buckets of wheel weights sold every day. 3 years ago Who woulda thunk Platinum would be less than gold
. We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. |
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03-21-2012, 02:52 PM
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They are selling wheel weights now? We used to get them for free and melt them down to make weights for the racecars.
I like smoking lightning |
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03-21-2012, 03:01 PM
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(03-21-2012 02:52 PM)carl609 Wrote: They are selling wheel weights now? We used to get them for free and melt them down to make weights for the racecars. I know people who buy them to cast their own bullets. Gold Club Member: ARC If Sonny had EZ-Pass, he'd have survived that hit... ![[Image: schat2.jpg]](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f26/JPR4400/local/schat2.jpg)
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03-21-2012, 05:13 PM
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My grandpa searches almost daily to find wheelweights to cast his own sinkers. Soon the lead ones will be illegal though just like everything else. Nice score skip
Git R Dun! |
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03-21-2012, 05:49 PM
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Good point. It's tough to find lead shotgun shells here
. We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. |
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03-21-2012, 07:59 PM
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Crazy stuff!
I have to re quote alot of my bronze filled PTFE due to the copper price changing everyday... Its nuts! ~ 2010- The year I was "showered" with gifts from my SC Brothers. Gratitude is when memories are stored in the heart, and not in the mind. Our hearts will not forget. |
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03-22-2012, 09:18 AM
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So how much is lead going for now? I might have a couple pounds....
...moving along...nothing left to see here. |
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03-22-2012, 05:19 PM
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03-22-2012, 09:08 PM
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Know nothing on this subject however I really want to buy an oz of gold. Lol
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