Found some wheel weights, painted ones, today with MC and AL-MC markings. Anyone know what they mean?
Found some wheel weights, painted ones, today with MC and AL-MC markings. Anyone know what they mean?
I dont know for sure what it means but I smelted some today and none of em floated to the top so I am assuming they were lead. I think I read on a post on here somewhere that the al mean it was for aluminum wheels. That the stamping refered to what it was intended to be used for.
Swamprat
Have looked up codes on Wheel Weights:
Regular - for Passenger Car Steel Wheels
AW - for Alloy Wheels on older GM, Ford, Chrysler
AWS (coated) - for Alloy Wheels on older GM, Ford, Chrysler
MCS - for recent GM, Ford, Chrysler
IAWS - for many foreign makes to 1996
LHS - for most Chrysler since 1998
FNS - for most Japanese and Korean cars since 1990
ENS - for Audi,VW since '97,Honda,Acura '80-'89,Mercedes
TS - for Light Truck - Ford, Lincoln, GMC,Chevrolet
Below I have posted a link to wheel Weights that has not been posted here yet. They claim no lead.
http://www.customwheelweights.com/st...FQEBYQod4hSymA
Don
Addendum to my post don't google lead free wheel weights it will make you sick, and too many of us will be out there seeking at all Tire Shops there wheel weights. ie You will drive up the price of what they think is just a pain in there A**.
Don
Just checking, is it safe to say that all the stick on ww are a softer lead?
i just found a stick on in a bucket of WW that stuck to a magnet. I ams ure they wouldn' melt so no big deal.
I test the stick on weights by cutting them with a pair of dikes. If they cut easily they are ok. If you don't have too many weights you can use only one dike.
I was given a box of ww marked "Aluma-Guard" Coated Wheel Weights. The box say "this product contains lead and antimony..."
Will the coating cause problems or will it "burn off" or skim off with the flux?
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tding melt them cast them size and lube them then go out and shoot them they will be just fine 44Woody
tding,
Throw them in and melt them down. The paint will burn off and leave some black ash. Skim it off, flux and cast away.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |