rubber stickys???

[arjacobson]

Okay got about 40-50 pounds of WW today and have found quite a few heavy RUBBER stick on's.. Let me see we have zinkers-steels...NOW rubber stickys to deal with.. I am starting to see more junk weights than ever before. This lead ban thing is rearing it's ugly head.. On a high note though my brother in law got me 1-1/2 buckets over christmas with only a few steelies and NO zinkers... checked each and every one just to be sure...

[DeanWinchester]

Yup, I mentioned those a while back. I found a new one a few days ago to look for. How about a hollow plastic stick on filled with a ferrous (iron??? it magnetic) shot type media. WAAAAYYYY to fine to used for shot shells, but I am cutting them open and saving it anyway. I might load me up some door breaching rounds.:veryconfu

[arjacobson]

Haven't seen any of the tube things yet.. I have found some silver weights marked"35" that are zinc though..... Some are lead some are zinc.. All the 10-15-20-25-30 marked ones have been lead.. Only problem I have had have been the 35's.. I should keep all the zinc to scrap but end up throwing them in our metal dumpster at work... Anyway I will keep an eye out for the ones you mention

[DeanWinchester]

Here's what they look like. Notice the fine media in the mason jar? It's ferrous whatever it is. I'm saving it from now on. It'll make some good loads for blowing out door hinges or fanning a dog's ars. The second pic I cut open the end.
There is a company logo on these that say IMI.

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[Freightman]

Brother in law brought me some weights yesterday and all I found was two zinc and about a dozen iorn the rest were lead.
That stuff looks like tumbling media for really dirty brass.

[lwknight]

Throwing zinc away ? Why ?
Zinc is almost the same price as lead!!

[Jim]

Throwing zinc away ? Why ?
Zinc is almost the same price as lead!!

What would ya' do with it?

[arjacobson]

I haven't had too much zinc to really save. After one of my boys "helped" me and put the zinc weights in the lead bucket I decided to scrap them right away so they have no chance of getting mixed up.. Besides I already have too many buckets with valuable scrap in the garage already... ..brass-copper-aluminum- not to mention 4-5 buckets of wheel weights and ingots

[lwknight]

What would ya' do with it?

I can get $0.65 per pound at the scrap yard for clean zinc and $0.45 for all wheel weights.
Industrially , it will cost over $1.20 per pound to buy zinc.

[Pistol_Pete]

Back in the seventies, my dad bought some things that looked a little like that. They were supposed to somehow self-balance the wheels. Fortunately they came with a money back guarantee, because they didn't work.




Here's what they look like. Notice the fine media in the mason jar? It's ferrous whatever it is. I'm saving it from now on. It'll make some good loads for blowing out door hinges or fanning a dog's ars. The second pic I cut open the end.
There is a company logo on these that say IMI.

[462]

They're used to balance rubber wheels.

[DeanWinchester]

They're used to balance rubber wheels.

Recent investigations lead me to believe that they are actually Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers.

[geargnasher]

I just got a batch from a local scrounger that had about five pounds of those sticky, rubber tape weights. I just tossed them, figured anything that new couldn't have lead in it so I didn't bother to check.

Gear

[home in oz]

Good Score!

[2wheelDuke]

I've seen a few of the heavy rubber weights now. I get alot of junk in the WW's I get, but I can't complain.

The rubber ones were pretty big for what felt like 1/4oz weights.

[leadman]

I got some of the tube type weights aver a year ago from a heavy truck tire store. I tried melting this stuff but it just kinda goes away.
Same thing with the heavy plastic stick-ons. I was told there is lead mixed in the plastic, but it doesn't want to melt out so it is usable.

[arjacobson]

I wondered about melting them also but just ended up tossing them in the clip bucket.. They are very flexible and heavy