Local guy has stick on wheel weights for sale. Tell me if I remember correctly, isn't a lot of the stick on w/w steel instead of lead? Thanks for all reply's. James C.
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Local guy has stick on wheel weights for sale. Tell me if I remember correctly, isn't a lot of the stick on w/w steel instead of lead? Thanks for all reply's. James C.
You'd have to look at them to be sure some new fangled stuff isn't in them,
but all the ones I ever saw were more or less pure lead.
If the tape is still on them, you might want to melt them down late at night when no one has their windows open.
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Take a pair of side cutters with you to test a random sample.
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Can also be either steel or zinc. Can't find new lead ones anymore. Note that they should be marked if not lead. The lead ones bend and cut easy. Whereas the steel and zinc ones don't.
45_Colt
You will need to verify that they are lead. They are also made of Steel, Zinc and some heavy rubber stuff.
Just put them in a bucket with your leftover acetone, thinners, etc for a few days. Come out nice and clean and no probs smelting.Originally Posted by Winger Ed.
Ron
A magnet will tell "right quick" the ones that are steel.
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
I use SOWW’s exclusively to arrive at my melt for 9mm and 10mm. I get them from local shop. 5gal buckets at a time. I sort them as said above; lead, plastic/composite, steel, etc. I use side-cutters/dikes or scratch on concrete. Smelt all lead, with paper, to make ingots. Comes out good to go. I sort COWW and SOWW. I usually get much more SOWW. It works!
Take a pair of side cutters and test every dang blamed one of them before you put them in your pot . The last two buckets of COWW I was given didn't have any stick ons in the buckets ... so I'm not sure what stick ons may be now . Some of the Clip ons looked just like soft wheel weights but were zinc or steel ... I had to test every one to get the look-likes out !
Test and be sure ... you don't want Zinkers sneaking in the pot .
Gary
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Bring the temp. up slowly and the lead will melt first.
Everything else melts at a noticeably higher temperature.
Stir the pot like it owes you money and the zinc & steel will float to the top.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
When I needed SOWW to balance a radio controlled airplane I stopped at a tire store. All of his stick on weights were steel with gray paint on them.
Sometimes life taps you on the shoulder and reminds you it's a one way street. Jim Morris
This is the best info I’ve found to aide in identifying lead SOWW….
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...-Wheel-Weights
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