KirkD
10-17-2008, 05:58 PM
Boys, I only started casting this summer. I've started collecting used wheel weights from local garages to feed my habit. I'm melting them down and making 2 pound muffin-shaped ingots, using one of my wife's muffin pans. Don't worry, I asked permission first and she gave me one to keep (how lucky can a guy get).
Anyway, I figure that if I want to sent a pound of lead downrange every week, and if I want to keep doing that for another 50 years until I'm at least 104 years old, I need 2,600 pounds of lead. So far, I've got 22 pounds worth of lead muffins. Anyway, I figured I need more sources of lead, so today I was in the city and stopped off at a major tire center. The going rate that the scrap company pays for used wheel weights is 30 cents a pound, so I offered the manager that. He said alright and showed me two buckets of wheel weights. There must be at least 100 pounds of lead in those buckets. Just a year ago, I never dreamed I'd be going bug-eyed over a couple buckets of used wheel weights, but now I almost drool when I see a whack of weights like that. That tire center produces a mother load of used wheel weights every week ..... and I'm the lucky guy that gets them!
Thanks, men, for helping me develop a new obsession. Normal people think I'm sick and need help. As for me, I think smart people make their own bullets. It's the 'normal' people who need help!:-D
Anyway, I figure that if I want to sent a pound of lead downrange every week, and if I want to keep doing that for another 50 years until I'm at least 104 years old, I need 2,600 pounds of lead. So far, I've got 22 pounds worth of lead muffins. Anyway, I figured I need more sources of lead, so today I was in the city and stopped off at a major tire center. The going rate that the scrap company pays for used wheel weights is 30 cents a pound, so I offered the manager that. He said alright and showed me two buckets of wheel weights. There must be at least 100 pounds of lead in those buckets. Just a year ago, I never dreamed I'd be going bug-eyed over a couple buckets of used wheel weights, but now I almost drool when I see a whack of weights like that. That tire center produces a mother load of used wheel weights every week ..... and I'm the lucky guy that gets them!
Thanks, men, for helping me develop a new obsession. Normal people think I'm sick and need help. As for me, I think smart people make their own bullets. It's the 'normal' people who need help!:-D