diving weights

[hornetguy]

Does anybody know the content of diving weights? I have a friend who has several of these that he says I can have. I assume they would be pure lead, but I don't know.
Does anybody know for sure what they would be made of?


Also, just to make everyone a little sick.... I stopped by a tire store here locally, and asked if they had any WW to get rid of... The guy told me "no, some guy came by last week and picked up 4 barrels of them".... I said "buckets?" He said, no.... BARRELS... indicating the 25-30 gallon size barrel.... he said they had been sitting around for quite some time, and were pretty much full.

I was a little disappointed, to say the least....

[e15cap]

Could be anything - I make them for my kid out of all the crap laying aroung the shop that I am unsure of. Best Roger

[trooperdan]

Could be anything vagely plumbus.. zinc, .. who knows.. proceed with caution!

[ReAX222]

My dad cast his from wheel weights. I am using some of his to cast boolits and I am finding a good bit of zinc and other trash in it. Not all diving is done in clean water, you may want to clean them before using them.

[joejr]

you should use caution they sometimes have water pockets in them.good thing i wasn't close to the pot when it blew

[Sam Carp]

I just melted some down last week and they were softer than wheel weights. I'm going to use it to make round balls for black powder.

Sam

[44man]

The ones I had contaminated a bunch of pure with zinc.

[hornetguy]

ok... thanks for all the heads-up...

I will look at them, and maybe melt one down to see what it looks like. I definitely won't mix any of it with the WW stuff I have.

If it looks soft enough, I might make some maxi-balls or REAL boolits out of them.

[mroliver77]

Carefull as trashy alloy can contaminate your pot also. I had to sand blast mine clean once to get rid of contaminates. J

[ReAX222]

I just did some today that were anywhere from 10-35 years old. It had a bit of zinc in it, but not to bad. It was cleaner than the bullets I reclaimed. We did alot today, some shot, some wheel weights, a 12lb diving weight and 30lbs of dug up boolits. I didn't even fill up a coffee can with trash.