MidSouth Shooters SupplySnyders JerkyInline FabricationLoad Data
RepackboxTitan ReloadingWidenersReloading Everything
Lee Precision RotoMetals2
Results 1 to 11 of 11

Thread: AL stamped WW

  1. 02-11-2013, 11:49 PM #1
    Remyvtr15
    Remyvtr15 is offline
    Boolit Bub
    Remyvtr15's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Posts
    49

    AL stamped WW

    OK... I looked... I searched... so I'm in kevlar and with ballistic helmet

    WTH is the AL stamped ww? Some cut fine with clippers...some are tougher.

    I started to just throw them all aside as junk alloy but am not sure cause all the pics of the different WW do not show the AL stamp

    Thanks

    I'll post pics if needed
    Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams
    Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
    John Adams

    For my rants on things important and not:
    http://commonmanandamerica.wordpress.com/
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. 02-11-2013, 11:54 PM #2
    imashooter2
    imashooter2 is offline
    Boolit Grand Master

    imashooter2's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    PA
    Posts
    7,933
    AL in this case means for use on aluminum rims. Do the wire cuter test, melt the soft ones, put the hard ones aside as zinc for future trading material.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. 02-12-2013, 03:45 PM #3
    Remyvtr15
    Remyvtr15 is offline
    Boolit Bub
    Remyvtr15's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Posts
    49
    thanks...
    Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams
    Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
    John Adams

    For my rants on things important and not:
    http://commonmanandamerica.wordpress.com/
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  4. 02-13-2013, 10:34 PM #4
    David2011
    David2011 is offline
    Boolit Master


    David2011's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Baytown Texas
    Posts
    4,112
    Sometimes they have a plastic-like silver coating on them that stays on top as they melt. Don't worry about it. Melt 'em and cast 'em.

    David
    Sometimes life taps you on the shoulder and reminds you it's a one way street. Jim Morris
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  5. 02-13-2013, 10:39 PM #5
    Charlie Two Tracks
    Charlie Two Tracks is offline
    Boolit Master


    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    Northern Illinois
    Posts
    1,782
    with a pair of wire cutters, you can't cut the zinc WW. Try to find a WW with ZN marked on it and you will see what I mean. Some lead WW are pretty darn hard around here. I use a sharp pair of wire cutters and cut at the end of the WW. I just make an indent not cut the end off. After a bit you will get the hang of it and be able to cruise right through.
    ARMY Viet-Nam 70-71
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  6. 02-15-2013, 08:20 PM #6
    master caster
    master caster is offline
    Boolit Bub
    Join Date
    Mar 2012
    Posts
    48
    The bigger weights its faster to hold on one end tap on concrete there is quite a difference in sound when zinc or iron. I do it this way so you can get your pot started with known lead and after melted add little ones and watch for floaters.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  7. 02-16-2013, 11:21 PM #7
    fishnhunt
    fishnhunt is offline
    Boolit Mold
    Join Date
    Aug 2009
    Location
    Hendersonville, NC
    Posts
    28
    The "AL" designation is a style of wheelweight (ww) that typically fits some aluminum rims - just like P, MC, AW, FN, C, TN, and others. "FE" designates steel weights (Fe is the symbol for iron right?). "ZN" is for zinc, so in many cases you will see a ww marked with FE and MC. Either melt slow and take temps constantly and keep the temp under 725 - or spend much time looking at and/or crimping every ww.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  8. 02-18-2013, 10:57 PM #8
    sdshootermsd
    sdshootermsd is offline
    Boolit Mold
    Join Date
    Feb 2013
    Location
    SD USA
    Posts
    2
    on some of the zinc ww it looks like the clip is riveted on instead of molded in

    as lead ww are.

    sdshootermsd
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  9. 02-18-2013, 11:29 PM #9
    high standard 40
    high standard 40 is offline
    Boolit Master
    high standard 40's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Location
    South Louisiana
    Posts
    1,215
    Quote Originally Posted by master caster View Post
    The bigger weights its faster to hold on one end tap on concrete there is quite a difference in sound when zinc or iron.
    That won't work for me, I've got a high frequency hearing loss. Also, I've seen some of the riveted weights that are steel, not zinc.
    I'm finding larger and larger percentages of unusable weights lately. Better get 'em while you can.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  10. 02-19-2013, 02:03 PM #10
    Patrick L
    Patrick L is offline
    Boolit Master

    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Upstate NY
    Posts
    1,609
    All of the riveted ones I've encountered have been steel, not zinc.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  11. 02-20-2013, 06:36 AM #11
    Bob Krack
    Bob Krack is offline
    Boolit Master at Heavens Range Bob Krack's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Location
    Ohio for a while Kalifornia then who knows where - Missouri?
    Posts
    802
    There used to be an aluminum re-processor named "American Aluminium". I worked for them in the late 1960's. They or one of their subsidiaries made wheel weights with the symbol "AL".

    I think the company is not in business in the continental USA any longer.

    Bob
    I was always taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder to find any!

    Μολὼν λαβέ; approximate Classical Greek pronunciation [molɔ̀ːn labé], Modern Greek [moˈlon laˈve]), meaning "Come and take them" is a classical expression of defiance reportedly by King Leonidas in response to the Persian army's demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules

Abbreviations used in Reloading

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