Lead Wheel Weights

No. And there is steady competition from the folks who use them to cast fishing weights.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

The 22 bullet ingots are very soft and are pretty much unsuitable for high power pistol bullets without adding some tin. They do work ok for black powder projectiles though or low velocity smokeless loads. They are an odd alloy.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

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I wanted wheel weights for slingshot ammo and went to a few gas stations/tire businesses thinking I would be doing them a favor by taking the lead off their hands. Not so. All of them say they have companies picking them up (and paying for them) to recycle. Les Schwab, whom I have been buying tires from for years, treated me like a pan handler/.

My Ruger Old Army likes 'em. But, at what, 250 grains per bullet, those cans of lead will last a gooooood long time.

Of course they did. The very notion that lead is valueless is absurd, the stuff of housewife's tales. It is a commodity like anything else and is valuable in the recycle business. How folks deduct that because a substance is controlled that it has no value is beyond me. Wouldn't a prudent individual conclude that old wheel weights can be melted to make

Harold

This was true even 20-25 years ago. If a good customer asked for some old wheel weights I'd give him a pound or so, but if it was someone I didn't know they were sent on thier way. But I'm sure the stuff is even more valuable now.

Lane

Glen Ashmore used to be on this group. Some of you will remember, Glen bought wheel weights for months if not years making a circuit of tire dealers and purchasing 1,000 pounds on each trip. His goal was to buy enough to cast an 8,000 pound lead keel for his sailing ship. The 8,000 pounds of lead cost him about $1,000 (therefore 12-1/2 cents a pound and he was a "quantity" buyer.

they

Yep! Surprisingly, not all substances (or elements) work that way. There was a time when you could sell mercury with no trouble. Recycle places gladly accepted it and paid a reasonable price for it.

In the course of running the refining business I once owned, I retorted a considerable amount of dental amalgam. It runs slightly over 50% mercury, as I recall, and I ended up with more than 100 pounds of it over the years. I was shocked to find that unless you have a full flask (76 pounds), even major refiners won't accept it from you, and they won't pay for it until the amount exceeds what I recall to be 150 pounds. You can ship a single flask to them at your expense and they'll gladly accept it gratis. You're out the flask and shipping. The deal was so lousy, I gave all the mercury to the purchaser of the business when I sold it.

Harold

What effect would a few zinc wheel weights have on an amateur (WW) lead caster?

R, Tom Q.

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Lead is insoluble in zinc, however 1.8at% (gah, I hate phase diagrams not in weight percent) zinc forms an eutectic in lead at 590K = 602°F. Above zinc's melting point, there's about 5at% solubility. Lemme see if I can convert that... about 1.7% max, by weight?

Tim

-- "California is the breakfast state: fruits, nuts and flakes." Website:

So is the national brain threat greater from wheel weights, or spent rounds?

I withdraw from this NG. You are a bunch of FW's, With a few exceptions, the info I have gained from here is not worth the listening to world blindness, and US/imperial self-justification, along with the gun theory that you need a gun to stop the other guy with a gun, that I have to endure.

Unfortunately, the audience I aim at has already probably already cut me off in a childish fit of self-righteous US inperialist shoot-the-other- guy.

So f*ck you.

Do not bother replying. Seriously. I give up. With regret

With that kind of attitude and language, you won't be missed!

Lane

Seriously, what put a bee in his bonnet?

Harold

Australian Happy Hour?

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Chuckle!

That would explain it, wouldn't it!

Harold

From the way a few blokes I've met from down under like their "Fosters", you'd think Aussie Happy Hour was 24 hours long.

So Nicky is going to once again, toss out the baby with the bathwater. In other words..take his ball and go home because he doesnt want to hear bad words.

Be careful not to brush against the door jam when you leave. With skin as thin as yours..you could bruise easily, or worse

(and dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out)

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

That's cool with me.

John