First melt down

[Bad Water Bill]

plated B.M." which is british metal which is tin.

Well this OLD reprobate learned something new today.

thank you sir

[thegreatdane]

beautiful little muffins

[HORNET]

If you're going to use California wheel weights (or most any others), you need to check down in the Lead and Alloys section and learn how to identify Zinc weights. No point in contaminating a batch of alloy when you can avoid it easily. I do a visual sort, plier test each one and use a PID controlled pot for smelting and still get some once in a while (probably from range salvage). Them zincers is tricky...

[cbrick]

California weights?

The mfg's don't make a wheel weight for California and something else for everyone else. Zinc weights are all over, not just CA.

Rick

[HORNET]

I was thinking that California mandated the change away from lead weights well before the other states started panicking. It would seem to me that a much higher percentage of the wheel weights found in California would be zinc due to the earlier change. I'm certainly finding more zinc here in Michiana than I used to find, including in some pre-made ingots that I got in a trade.

[mold maker]

plated B.M." which is british metal which is tin.

Well this OLD reprobate learned something new today.

thank you sir

Me too.
Thanks.

[BBGun]

If you're going to use California wheel weights (or most any others), you need to check down in the Lead and Alloys section and learn how to identify Zinc weights. No point in contaminating a batch of alloy when you can avoid it easily. I do a visual sort, plier test each one and use a PID controlled pot for smelting and still get some once in a while (probably from range salvage). Them zincers is tricky...

All of the weights I have found, I use a pair of dykes on them. The zinc is too hard to cut. I've found steel to plastic. The last weights I found are well over half lead.
Probably because we have so many foreign cars here.