So this is what 850 LB's of WW's look like before being mounted on a wheel.
There's 136 boxes with 25, 4oz weights per box.
Just as clean as when when they where cast.
What do you guys think, clean enough to go straight in to the casting pot?
I may be ready forAfter I get them unloaded.
And in CA of all places? Nice!
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I am probably to wrong person to ask but the ones I find on the street go right into the casting pot, I don't bother making ingots of them.
Tim
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All of my wheel weights go into the smelter as is. Crud comes up to the top.
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NO, I would still smelt as normal and flux, flux flux. How do YOU know how clean they are from the factory? Ya think they really take pains with a wheel weight? Not worth it.
I would make ingots of them.
I will occasionally drop a found WW directly into the casting pot, but that's just one.
That was a good find! Congratulations!
They are worth about $30.00 a box wholesale... Can they no longer be used in Nor. Cal.?
Like I said I was the wrong person to ask. I don't spend a lot of time playing with my lead. I try to get it to the range as ammo with as little fuss as possible. The only thing I make into ingots is range scrap. Lino, solder, wheelweights, etc. stay native. Even my sprues and rejects go into boxes to be returned to the casting pot for a later batch of alloy.
Tim
Tim
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Sorry to say but no go in CA for a few years now.Originally Posted by Beesdad
even scrapped WW's are real hard to find out here. Maybe 2 to 4% in the tire shop buckets these days if your lucky enough to even have access to there buckets.
Well that's a great score... Should keep you going for the next few weeks.. Sorry about your WW's in Ca.
Excellent score.....you should feel a little dirty if you got them free cause......well you get the picture. I always smelt and pour into ingots.
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It's cheaper to learn about your alloy in the smelting pot instead of the bottom pour casting pot. Plug the nozzle with high antimony/copper babbit and you'll have a time getting it out.
What does this have to do with putting clean wheel weights directly in the casting pot?
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
Just that, you don't KNOW they're clean. Shiny don't mean squat. What lurks beneath the surface? Only in a smelting pot will the truth rise to the top
There's nothing wrong with learning the hard way. You might very well go through life and never have a problem. I ain't been so lucky.
I guess something different could happen in my pot but I have been tossing wheel weighs into my range scrap alloy in my casting pot for decades. Same for adding solder and Linotype. I use corncob as a flux in the pot and leave the ash on top. I have seen posts that said that was not a good idea also. To each his own. Maybe I have had success because I do start with clean lead in the bottom of the pot and I never let the pot go below a quarter full and almost always fill the pot back to full with molten alloy before I turn it off. I scrape the bottom, sides and stem quite frequently with a teaspoon to which I have attached a wooden handle. I have had the pot get drippy and emptied it to clean the spout and stem. I give the inside a good scrubbing when it is empty but that is only every few years, might be overdue it has been at least a couple years. I probably don't cast many more than 2,000 bullets a year.
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
By clean I mean no dirt or goo on them. My wheel weights are not as clean as his since I pick them up in parking lots and at the side of the road I do brush the off but I don't wash them. Sometimes I get a few from a shop but never many, not that lucky. Not sure what you think lurks beneath the surface. As a kid I did enjoy melting lead just for the fun of it so I can understand a fascination with smelting but am now glad to skip that part as much as I can and get right to casting bullets. Lately I have been tempted to skip gathering range scrap and just buy what I need.Just that, you don't KNOW they're clean. Shiny don't mean squat. What lurks beneath the surface? Only in a smelting pot will the truth rise to the top
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
How much oil and stuff is one them from being made?
A little oil would be a good thing. (flux)
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