What are the biggest wheel weights you ever got?

[Rickf1985]

I got a large load of wheel weights recently and in there were some huge truck weights. I had an automotive shop for many years and never ran into anything like these. When I was driving a truck I saw them on the wheels but they looked normal in size compared to the wheels. Note the medium size 2 1/4 oz. car weight on the clip on truck weights and the strip of car weights on the truck stick on's. The thinner clip on's are 12 and 14 oz.! The bigger ones are not marked. And all of those stick on weights are much harder than soft lead. I am going to check them in a few once I warm up.

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[Bakebfr480]

In the 3rd photo the top weight with the clip is zinc.

[Winger Ed.]

Years ago, I knew a guy who worked as a mechanic at the rapid transit city bus barn.
He brought me several pull offs they couldn't re-use for whatever reason.
I never weighed them, but they were about the size of a banana.

[Rickf1985]

In the 3rd photo the top weight with the clip is zinc.

No it isn't, if you are looking at the z on there I also did that and you can't see it but I tested it with cutters. There were NO zinc weights in the 1,000 lbs. I got. This was all sorted lead from a reloaders estate. Actually if you look at the top picture you can barely see on the left edge of the bottom weight where I nicked it with the cutters. That was before I cleaned it looking for the weight size.

[Bird]

I have a bucketful that came off busses.

[slim1836]

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Largest one I've found, don't remember the weight.

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[lightman]

I think I saved a 16oz weight thats around here someplace.

[Kylongrifle32]

I used to have a 14oz clip on weight that was always a hoot to band clamp on to one of my buddies truck drive shaft once the pranking started.

[Old Ears]

Here's one at 16oz that I'm not melting down. It's over my bench now.

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[tigweldit]

Friend of mine here in N.E. Wisconsin is third generation logger. He cleaned out an old family building and came up with a coffee can full of wheel weights that he gifted me. Half a dozen 16 oz. He thought they were 50-60 years old. I've got lots of wheel weights, so these will stay on the shelf for as long as possible.

[Baltimoreed]

The really big ones are zinc sometimes so be careful and don’t wreck the lead in your pot. Whack them sitting on your bench vise with a hammer, lead will squish but the hammer will bounce off zinc ww’s. Hard stuff.

[higgins]

Years ago when one could get free used weights for the asking I got some like that from the shop at truck stop. It was out of the way so I didn't often pass it but when I did I would pick up a few.

[Rooster]

Needs to be screwed to an oak plaque and mounted over the bunker's front door. Oh, and engrave the date you bagged it too. Cheers!

[SoonerEd]

Most of the big ones I've gotten have been zinc. A few have been lead but not many.

[dale2242]

Back in the 60s, when my BIL drove big rigs, he got me some huge WWs from truck wheels .
I don`t remember the weights, but big.
They added up fast and made smelting much easier.

[LenH]

Back when I first started casting, a friends dad was a trailer mechanic for a truck line. He would bring me boxes of used weights. The boxes or buckets
would be in the 50# range which was about all he could carry out to the trunk of his car. Those were some hefty weights. as one above said some as big as bananas.

Mind you all I had at the time was a Lee 4# pot and a Lyman ladle, still have both and 2 cavity mold. That was before getting a rendering pot and ingot molds.
I used to look at WW and try and figure how many 454-424 boolits I could get out of certain WW.

[imashooter2]

I’m just a piker at 8 ounces.

[Rickf1985]

Finally found a 16 ouncer in one of the last buckets! That one will be cleaned up and mounted over the bench. I thought I had found an 18 but it looks like it is just a longer but skinnier 16. Looks like 16 ounce might be the biggest ones. I haven't weighed the short really fat ones yet.