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Thread: Another new to me style of SOWW

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    Boolit Bub

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    Another new to me style of SOWW

    Anyone run into soft rubbery SOWW? About 1/4" thick 1 1/4" wide. Finally got hooked up with a good size tire shop last fall for lead. They gave me 160lbs for a case of beer. After sorting 160# I ended up with 92# of good weights. 42.5% loss, That was last fall. Just picked up a half bucket the other day and started sorting. It looks disheartening because I believe the % of scrap will be even more and there are more of the rubber ones in this bucket

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    Yes i have gotten the rubbery stuff in what i have picked up. someone once told me what it is made of but i dont remember now. Not much weight in a big strip of it - cant imagine trying to balance a wheel with it. Just toss it - it aint lead. I sort the stick on wheel weights from the clip on since the SOWW is softer than the COWW and has no antimony in it - good for muzzle loader.

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    I have run into that heavy rubbery stuff before. Into the trash it goes.

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    I've found a few of those and yeah, they go in the trash. I also find some composite weights, a plastic looking thing.

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    The last time I sold scrap iron I left the rubbery SOWW and the plastic weights in the fe weights and clips, the scrap yard checked them with there magnet and bought all of it.

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    Somewhere on this forum, someone said that those rubbery weights are composed of powdered zinc and a rubber type binder. Trash 'em.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bloodman14 View Post
    Somewhere on this forum, someone said that those rubbery weights are composed of powdered zinc and a rubber type binder. Trash 'em.
    2nd that! Don't try to melt that trash down, it sticks to the pot sides something terrible.
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