Oh my Pat!...let's see, I'll try to answer in order. The price for a new Littleton Shotmaker is (I believe) $375, but you can do a search here and find the web addy. We don't buy our lead, we used to get it from tire stores, but now we get it from a salvage yard. They've got to remove the wheel weights from the junk cars anyway, so they (our next door neighbor) save them for us. We only use wheel weights. We make the ingots in the winter, and shot in the summer. I think we usually average about 200lbs a day, depending on if the machine and/or operator's are behaving, but we don't start real early, around 9am - 4pm. I know they say the machine is supposed to put out 45lbs an hour, but it don't happen here!..lol It's a lot of work, but we make a party out of it with some of our shooting buddies.