Mornin all I remember a while back, someone talking about lead beads or something, to add to a locos weight, small enough to get into small places as well. Anyone know where to get such a thing? Home Depot, RadioShack?? Thanks in advance Rob
Try a gun shop that sells reloading supplies... you want a bag of lead shot. (NOT steel shot!) It'll be nearly a lifetime supply.
Get #7 or #8 if you can. They are small, and will more easily fit into odd places.
Duck decoy weights (the bar kind) are also excellent. Easy to cut and glue.
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Gun shop. Get small bird shot.
The real trick is gluing the stuff in place so it won't fall out and kill your little HO birdies. :-)
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A 12" to the foot #7 or #8 would kill more than an HO birdie! It's about 9" in diameter! That would put a good sized hole in an elephant.
Is lead shot still available? I thought concerns about filling lakes and estuaries with bits of lead occasioned a move to steel shot.
Bismuth.
Lead is still available for skeet use and such.
I can imagine it might lead [no pun intended] to some nasty bore erosion.
Go to a sporting goods store or a gun shop and get five pounds of lead shot.
Don
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5 lbs? Last I saw it, it was a 25lb bag. I still have a paint can half full of it.
You can use split shot from fishing supplies too.
Let's see... 99 cents for about 1/4 oz of fishing split shot, or around $15.00 for a 25 pound bag of shotgun shell #8... Gee...
I find small fishing weights work very well.
The old standby is beebee shot. I recently got $9 worth at Sports Authority and it'll weight many cars; just pour them in and use a food scale to weigh:
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Fishing stuff is often 'half price' at the end of the season, and besides, I don't think even a club could use _all_ of that 25 pound bag of #8 shot.
Buying in bulk is only economical if you use most of what you bought.
Kent
Even at half price split shot is more expensive. Besides, lead shot goes on sale, too. And several people have been known to pool and buy lead shot, too.
In N scale, it got economical after about 30 cars... and I have about 200. (Yeah, most of them didn't need weighting, but you'd be surprised how many were a bit under.)
Even moreso when you consider I got the shot for about 30% of list due to a going-out-of-business sale.
Besides, I use fishing splitshot for FISHING... I don't shoot shotgun enough to reload my own...
... yet...
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