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mac1911 said:
Im pretty sure this is 50/50 lead/tin solder
Depending on actual weight could be a good score. 50/50 usually runs $15/1lb

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I sent him a message earlier asking about size and how many. And it's 50 50 solder. Would look good for the right deal he's not to far would spread it around I don't need that much.
 
For those to the south more soft lead

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No bargain but if you local and can negotiate for the entire lot. ?
 
If it aint free …… keels often suck, filled with all sorts of junk
Theres a reason many keels are still around , scrap yards dont even want rhem lol.
Last one I helped to move and melt had chunks of iron in the core.
 
mac1911 said:
If it aint free …… keels often suck, filled with all sorts of junk
Theres a reason many keels are still around , scrap yards dont even want rhem lol.
Last one I helped to move and melt had chunks of iron in the core.
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Very good he scraps it a marine salvage guy. He is getting 80 cents at the yard. I've never melted one cut up a few. I cut a big sailboat in bridgeport ct 2 years ago keel was 25 ton cut it with a shear only steel was at attachment points. But I have tried cleaning others wrapped in fiber glass not worth it
 
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Very good he scraps it a marine salvage guy. He is getting 80 cents at the yard. I've never melted one cut up a few. I cut a big sailboat in bridgeport ct 2 years ago keel was 25 ton cut it with a shear only steel was at attachment points. But I have tried cleaning others wrapped in fiber glass not worth it
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I grabbed three smaller ones years ago. I wanna say they were like 200 to 400 pounds. They came from small sailboats but they had like an epoxy coating on that really sucked. I used a larger portable bandsaw to cut them. When I was melting them down I got a lot of garbage out of them lots of junk, almost like sand Lots of dross. If they were as heavy as they say they were, I yielded probably 65% when I was done.

The large one I helped a friend of mine do where someway between 1000 and 1400 pounds. We used a flatbed to move it and it wasn’t all that heavy just awkward. Didn’t feel like 1000 pounds to me. He used a carbide tipped circular, saw to hacking into pieces and that’s when we started finding the chunks of iron inside. It’s as if they stacked iron blocks in the middle. Same thing with him the fiberglass was a real pain in the ass and all said and done. I think he gave up and only pulled about 600 pounds out of it before he gave up.
Since then I hear they are filled with low grade lead and scrap . Theres often signs up at the scrap yards no boats/keels
 
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mac1911 said:
I grabbed three smaller ones years ago. I wanna say they were like 200 to 400 pounds. They came from small sailboats but they had like an epoxy coating on that really sucked. I used a larger portable bandsaw to cut them. When I was melting them down I got a lot of garbage out of them lots of junk, almost like sand Lots of dross. If they were as heavy as they say they were, I yielded probably 65% when I was done.

The large one I helped a friend of mine do where someway between 1000 and 1400 pounds. We used a flatbed to move it and it wasn’t all that heavy just awkward. Didn’t feel like 1000 pounds to me. He used a carbide tipped circular, saw to hacking into pieces and that’s when we started finding the chunks of iron inside. It’s as if they stacked iron blocks in the middle. Same thing with him the fiberglass was a real pain in the ass and all said and done. I think he gave up and only pulled about 600 pounds out of it before he gave up.
Since then I hear they are filled with low grade lead and scrap . Theres often signs up at the scrap yards no boats/keels
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So forget keels then. I've never had an issue scraping anything we do deal with small yards. Only a few end up handling it in the end smaller guys jump on bigger yards sales to get better prices.
 

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