What do with iron and zinc ww

[Buck Neck It]

How many pounds do you want? 60? 120? 180?

[Chris24]

I keep my old steel and zinc weights in a separate bucket. I found a $5 pair of old speakers at Goodwill, and pulled the woofers out. They have nice big magnets on them. I tried using one of them to separate the steel from the zinc. It works really well!

[brtelec]

Zinc round balls make excellent Wrist Rocket ammo.

[mold maker]

Zinc round balls make excellent Wrist Rocket ammo.

Now that make sense. Just another form of ammo.

[Chris24]

I had quite a bit of zinc sitting around. I tried smelting it, and it worked. It took a lot longer to melt than lead, and the clips don't float to the top. However, it made some really nice ingots. They're quite a bit lighter than lead. They're very close to pure zinc, because they weigh almost exactly what the density ratio predicted.

[funnyjim014]

Anyone ever try making shot out of zinc? I know the smaller pellets would loose steam quickly but what about #4 and bigger?

[Hardcast416taylor]

I give my accumulated unwanted scrap weights and other metal to a friend that puts the plastic pail in the trunks of junk cars he is selling at the scrap yard for extra weight.Robert

[Hogtamer]

480 gr .731 zamak 3 (96% zinc, 4% Aluminum) full bore 12 ga "Zlugs" for rifled gun. The same slug in lead is 775 grns. I move the Zlugs at 1600+ fps, 4' ballistic gel penetration. 3 - 5" groups out of Ultra Slug Hunter @ 100 yds. I buy the alloy from rotometals. The Al. works like tin in your lead, helps with flow and fill out. Weighs about 62% of lead. Gotta cast about 825*

[ElMatavenados]

If anybody has some zinc WW that they would normally throw away, I would be happy to reimburse you for your flat-rate shipping boxes full of them.

Here in CA, it is now illegal to hunt squirrels, coyotes, or any other varmint with leaded ammo, so I'm experimenting with zinc boolits. I have a .223 mold that with lead would be a 55gr boolit, but with zinc, it's 32. If I load it in a .223 Rem case with enough pistol powder to reach .22mag velocities, it's cheaper to shoot than .22lr these days. Especially if I source the zinc for free! A local tire shop hooks me up with a box of WW from time to time, but I think they're out of business now.

As for the boolits, I'm surprised at how easily they cast. While they're not perfect cosmetically, the zinc flows much better than I was led to believe. I pour them 1 at a time. The sprue is much more difficult to break off than lead, but if you beat on it a few times, it breaks away. I got my .224 boolit sizing die in today, so I intend to load some up and try them out on Monday! I have an H&R Handi Rifle that will be my test platform. It's not being used for anything currently, so if I ruin the barrel, it won't break my heart.

So, help out a Californian, and send the zinc WW my way! Shoot me a PM if interested.