I found a handful of SOWW in todays score that look like this:
Any ideas what they are? I can break them easily with pliers, they don't really bend much, and are very shiny internally with a crystallized appearance. Externally, they are just dull grey. They are about the size of the bottom SOWWs in Pic #1.
My last haul was about 300# of stick ons. I was very careful and had pot at 675-690 confirmed two diff thermos. they swamped right in with the rest. Was maybe 5% of total. How long before somebody tells me I ZN'd my batch? They were a little harder, Yes. But they cut, scratched,
now you guy's got me scared. Gtek
Those are definitely zinc.
I recently went through 6 buckets of stickies, so I am quite familiar with them.
You can easily test for zinc with a pair of wire cutters. Try cutting one of them and you'll find that they either don't dent at all or they'll snap in half with more force. A clip-on or stick-on lead weight will dent without snapping in half.
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Remove adhesive tape or just burn it in the lead?
I recently was given a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weights that came from an import car dealership. Most were stick on with a few clip on. Most all of the clip on were either zinc or steel and a fair amount of the stick on were also zinc. The surprise was a double handful of a heavy foam stick on weight. They appeared to be foam, but felt almost like pure lead. I’ll guess out of the full bucket of weights I got maybe 15 pounds of lead stick on weights. It was way too much work for what I got out of it.
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Like I posted in the other thread, I melt them with the tape on them. They smoke and stink but sometimes you can light the smoke and get it to burn. Its too much work for me to try and dissolve the glue. I live on a fairly large lot so the smoke is not a problem.
Yeah, the weights that I have gotten from dealerships have had more iron and zinc than the ones that I get from other places.
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 |