| ROBERT6500 |
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| 26/12/2007 17:54 |
LEAD PRICES
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It`s come to my notice after trying to buy a new battery for my Pajero that the price of lead in a battery has hardly gone up at all, so why is lead shot through the roof so to speak? as there is a hell of a lot of lead in a battery.
I have been talking to a lot of clay shooters about the subject lately and every single one of them say they are cutting right back, giving it up or doing a lot more rough shooting. The latter being a problem in its self, as there isn`t enough land for everyone to rough shoot.
I am also interested to know if the cartridge companies are starting to have a fall in sales, as less shooting is being done already.
| sandersj89 |
| (stranger) |
| 26/12/2007 19:54 |
Re: LEAD PRICES
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It all depends of "future" prices.
Your battery may have been made some months ago, but cart are more of a commodity.
Recent lead prices have dropped but I doubt we will see a drop in cart prices for some time.
Jerry
| belmontcj |
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| 27/12/2007 19:54 |
Re: LEAD PRICES
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http://www.lme.co.uk/lead_graphs.asp
Hi Robert, the above link will take you to the London Metal Exchange web site. On the page I have linked you'll find a tool allowing you to plot a graph of Lead prices over the last 10 years.
If I have the figures right, lead peaked around October at US$4,000 per tonne and has decreased to around US$2500 in December. The graph makes interesting viewing as from 1998 to 2002 the price remained fairly constant at around US$500.
Here's hoping we see the reducing prices being passed back to the consumer.
| VinceGreen |
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| 26/05/2008 10:45 |
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Re: LEAD PRICES
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Car batterys don't use much lead. a thousand cartridges uses about 70 lbs.