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NTD
01-10-2012, 11:41 AM
A friend bought some land and found several buckets of WW's and 4 slabs of lead and is letting us take it all. They are all about 2ft long and maybe 4-6" wide. There are 2 thin slabs about 1/2" thick and the other two are several inches thick. All 4 have 2 holes in them as you can see in the pics. Any clue what I might have here?

Thanks for any help.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l144/NDanforth83/2012-01-09211105.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l144/NDanforth83/2012-01-09211053.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l144/NDanforth83/imagejpeg_2_2.jpg

atom73
01-10-2012, 12:32 PM
They look like bolt on weights for a race car, too small for a tractor. No telling what alloy they are, you would have to test the hardness using one of the methods found described elsewhere on this site. If they are race-weights, those guys melted what they had. Considering that they were found with WW's, that is the likely source.
Mike

Reload3006
01-10-2012, 12:45 PM
Ballast weight for something. We used to do a lot of weights like that for aircraft too. do a BNH on it and cut it up and Choot it lizabet lol

Ronbo256
01-10-2012, 01:06 PM
I have to fight with the race car builders around here for lead, they use up all the WW making ballast so their cars turn better on the dirt track. That looks like what they make, two bolt holes and a few different thickness to tune the car by adding or removing weight. Plus I'm pretty sure they have a minimum weight to meet and would rather add the lead and put the weight where they want it. If that is what it is, it should make beautiful boolits

NTD
01-10-2012, 01:18 PM
Thanks for responses guys, we'll give it a try.

Link23
01-18-2012, 09:36 AM
i just got 4 of those 1 4inch thick one and one thats lke 1/8th of an inch they are almost like old weights from a weight machine

Link23

TJF1
01-18-2012, 11:55 AM
Counter weights for cable elevators

revolver junkie
01-21-2012, 05:03 AM
counter weights for elevators are usually steel

M4bushy
01-21-2012, 07:39 AM
Ballast weight for something. We used to do a lot of weights like that for aircraft too. do a BNH on it and cut it up and Choot it lizabet lol

Thanks for making me spit coffee on my iPad...lol I love that show!

HardColt
01-21-2012, 08:54 AM
Looks like aircraft ballast weights from inside of the radome around the radar package.