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OT - Where to buy soft lead

Wheel weights are pretty hard stuff, usually a bit harder than the old Linotype.

I get my lead from the scrap yard (I am a seriously addicted bullet caster).

Plumbing supply houses should also have bars of pure lead, and lead alloys.
 
Pure lead may be hard to come by. Used wheel weights from tire shop have antimony, other impurities. If you're casting bullets for muzzle loaders, you need soft pure lead. If you're casting fishing sinkers, bullets for conventional guns, toy soldiers, etc., wheel weight lead will work OK. I like to add a little tin to such lead to harden it a bit, maybe 10 parts lead to one part solder. I got a couple buckets of solder from the local radiator shop by cleaning out under soldering bench. Pretty dirty stuff but cleans up nicely when melted. a bottom drain lead melter works best. (Last time I got lead from tire dealer he wanted $20 for a 5 gallon bucket full.)
 
If you can find a junk forklift,some have 3'x 8"x8" lead ballasts bolted on the inside of them. We used about 2 or 3 of them for lead shot. One man cant lift them.
 
Better than a wholesaler, just ask a plumber who does maintenance for a municipality. They probably have several tons of the stuff lying in their scrap pile. For some reason, cities and towns used to use a lot of it for below-grade drain pipes instead of cast iron.
 
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