TexasJeff
05-31-2008, 02:20 PM
I used to have a tire shop (one of the big national brand shops, believe it or not) that would quietly stockpile me up all the wheel weights I wanted--for $5/per FULL five-gallon bucket. Ended up being two half-filled buckets 'cause no way I could get that full bucket up and in the back of my pickup truck.
Last month, a new manager came to this little town and stopped the saving of wheel weights. I met the little turd yesterday--smallish guy, soft hands, who exuded an air of moral and intellectual superiority.
Started spouting EPA laws and how "lead is destroying the environment." What's more, according to my mechanic pal, this asswipe is now ordering ONLY zinc wheel weights.
But, as bad as losing that source was, a source I'd been working for the past few months paid off huge.
80 pounds of BRAND NEW NEVER USED WHEEL WEIGHTS for no charge. What's more, he can average me around 100 pounds a month, at no charge--actually, all he wants is an airplane ride now and then. Seems he wants to get his pilot's license.
And, get this, they were THROWING THEIR OLD, USED and NOT-NEEDED WHEEL WEIGHTS IN THE DUMPSTER!
Perseverance pays.
I'm smelting my first batch as we speak.
Jeff
P.S. Just by walking around the dock/dumpster area of this first tire store (where Mr. Environment works), I picked up close to five pounds of wheel weights that were just laying on the ground scattered about. Stopped by three more big tire shops and collected almost ten more pounds between the three of them just from loose/dropped/scattered wheel-weights.
Last month, a new manager came to this little town and stopped the saving of wheel weights. I met the little turd yesterday--smallish guy, soft hands, who exuded an air of moral and intellectual superiority.
Started spouting EPA laws and how "lead is destroying the environment." What's more, according to my mechanic pal, this asswipe is now ordering ONLY zinc wheel weights.
But, as bad as losing that source was, a source I'd been working for the past few months paid off huge.
80 pounds of BRAND NEW NEVER USED WHEEL WEIGHTS for no charge. What's more, he can average me around 100 pounds a month, at no charge--actually, all he wants is an airplane ride now and then. Seems he wants to get his pilot's license.
And, get this, they were THROWING THEIR OLD, USED and NOT-NEEDED WHEEL WEIGHTS IN THE DUMPSTER!
Perseverance pays.
I'm smelting my first batch as we speak.
Jeff
P.S. Just by walking around the dock/dumpster area of this first tire store (where Mr. Environment works), I picked up close to five pounds of wheel weights that were just laying on the ground scattered about. Stopped by three more big tire shops and collected almost ten more pounds between the three of them just from loose/dropped/scattered wheel-weights.