Rickf1985
01-08-2022, 04:25 PM
Well, I am sure most of you have seen my other thread about the huge haul of wheel weights I got and after going through a couple of the buckets I realized they were 100% lead, no trash, not zinc, no steel! So I went back today and got all the rest he had, another 500 lbs. That gives me 1500lbs. total WW's. But I also snagged some other goodies today. Some Extra wiping ingots which I am researching and some blocks that are the same as the ones I got before and some pigs that are similar to lino but are not lino pigs. One has a W stamped in each end and I suspect they may be WW. A small block that was tested with the vise and ball method and marked Tin and a small round stick I suspect is a solder bar.
So overall today was 500lbs. WW and 250lbs. of other. But all the "other" rings like a bell! No thuds when you tap them.
I think I am pretty much set for a while. The only bad part of this haul of weights was that they were stored on buckets with no holes and full of water so the clips rusted for several years and they are crusty. Going to be a lot of dross and fluxing. These will be waiting for a while to get done. I have found a lot of weights with markings I have never seen before, I am going to start tossing them aside and taking pics of them so someone can add them to the ones I have seen online here.
https://i.postimg.cc/KvcYyddQ/IMG-20220108-145121308-HDR.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/RVPZCgmm/IMG-20220108-145144743-HDR.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/zGVXyTDg/IMG-20220108-145218101.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/wMQ3kznR/IMG-20220108-145347879.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/nhgVBMMw/IMG-20220108-145402895.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
So overall today was 500lbs. WW and 250lbs. of other. But all the "other" rings like a bell! No thuds when you tap them.
I think I am pretty much set for a while. The only bad part of this haul of weights was that they were stored on buckets with no holes and full of water so the clips rusted for several years and they are crusty. Going to be a lot of dross and fluxing. These will be waiting for a while to get done. I have found a lot of weights with markings I have never seen before, I am going to start tossing them aside and taking pics of them so someone can add them to the ones I have seen online here.
https://i.postimg.cc/KvcYyddQ/IMG-20220108-145121308-HDR.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/RVPZCgmm/IMG-20220108-145144743-HDR.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/zGVXyTDg/IMG-20220108-145218101.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/wMQ3kznR/IMG-20220108-145347879.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/nhgVBMMw/IMG-20220108-145402895.jpg (https://postimages.org/)