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Thread: Wheel weight score!

  1. 06-23-2018, 03:11 AM #1
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    Wheel weight score!

    I picked up half a bucket of wheel weights today from a local junk yard/body shop/repair shop. I got it sorted and weighed the lead wheel weights with the steel clips still on in a five gallon bucket. Total weight was just over 29 pounds. Minus the weight of the bucket and the steel clips I should come out with around 20 pounds of free wheel weight lead.
    I live in Illinois and as some of you may know Illinois banned lead wheel weights like ten years ago. To those of you out there struggling to find lead don't give up! There is lead to be found.
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  2. 06-23-2018, 03:18 AM #2
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    Now I need to figure out what to do with all the zinc I've accumulated.
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  3. 06-23-2018, 03:35 AM #3
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    Nice. Always nice especially for the price.
    Elvis Ammo, on YouTube, makes zinc bullets. May interest you to watch the videos.
    if it doesn't fit, don't force it. Get a BIGGER HAMMER!
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  4. 06-23-2018, 03:36 AM #4
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    20# of free lead is a good score! I have to buy all of mine online now. There are no WW to be had around here, and haven't for a long time.
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  5. 06-23-2018, 10:06 AM #5
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    Thats a nice score! Try to think of something to do for that shop to make them remember you. Transfer your repair business to them, take them some donuts, beer, pizza, anything to help secure them as a source.
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  6. 06-23-2018, 10:48 AM #6
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    I've known the owner and his son for the better part of twenty years. I used to be in a band with the owners son.
    I'll probably end up just selling the zinc to one of the local scrap yards and buying more lead, or maybe a new boolit mold.
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  7. 06-23-2018, 12:35 PM #7
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    Great score!! I was able to get 3lb of wheel weights. All I had to do was take them off the junk cars. Took about an hour
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  8. 06-23-2018, 03:52 PM #8
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    Get a small cannon and cast cannon balls for it from the zinc.
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  9. 06-23-2018, 06:02 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by DxieLandMan View Post
    Great score!! I was able to get 3lb of wheel weights. All I had to do was take them off the junk cars. Took about an hour
    I once got 11 ounces of wheel weights off of one vehicle. It was an old four wheel drive truck.
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  10. 06-23-2018, 09:28 PM #10
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    I am turning zinc into ingots to sell to the scrap yard. They XRF them and I drill one in front of them to xrf the shavings from the middle. When I have 50 pounds I take it in.
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  11. 06-23-2018, 11:00 PM #11
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    I got around to melting the zinc I got yesterday. I only got maybe three pounds of zinc out of all the scrap wheel weights. Most of the scrap weights ended up being steel.
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  12. 06-24-2018, 10:32 AM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdfoxinc View Post
    Get a small cannon and cast cannon balls for it from the zinc.
    Can you cast zinc in an aluminum mold? I have a cannon and an aluminum mold and don't want to cast 2 inch lead balls since it will use up my lead stash too fast.
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