A Wheel Weight Story ---

[Ron B.]

Today, I may have gotten lucky ---

Early this morning, my lovely wife convinced me; it was time to drive her north to Pueblo, so the girl could do her favorite thing, shopping! Anyway, I agreed; dropping her off at JC Penny's for a haircut. I dropped by Home Depot; picking up a couple of buckets; planning on going knocking on tire company doors, begging for wws. Ny very first stop; a little tire company one of two boys told me to talk to Dave. Here comes Dave; a big burly sort. I almost forgot what I came for. Anyway, I made my spill

"I huh cast my own bullets; do you have any wws I can get from you? I'll pay for them, if you wish?"

Dave, the quiet type said,

"Wait here!"

I followed his orders to a tee; not budging. Directly, here comes Dave; returning. He's got a cart loaded down with boxes of wws! These are not regular used wws. These are brand spanking new wws.

"$50; you can have em all! We don't use this brand anymore!"

"I don't have that much cash; will you take my CC?"

"You bought from us before?"

"Yes!" I wasn't lying either.

I came home with what amounted to almost two 6 gallon buckets; full of brand new wws! I didn't knock on another single door today.

All you have to do is ask.



Only two sizes in the mix!

[Bill*]

Quote "Today, I may have gotten lucky ---"

YA THINK?

[Ron B.]

You tell me ---

[45nut]

huge score there.

[briang]

I hate you, you lucky son of a gun.

[Dean D.]

Where's that darned envy emoticon??? :P

Congratz on a great haul!

[Jumping Frog]

I recognize that brand. Those are zinc!














(just kidding)

[mtgrs737]

Now you can take those to other shops and trade them 2 for 1 for used weights and double your score! Who knows you might even get 3 for 1! New weights are expensive!

[Sprue]

Yep, zinc... all of em.












Congrats!

[carpetman]

New wheel weights haven't been broken in so will probably buck in the wind.

[Ron B.]

I disagree, too heavy for zinc!

Thanks guys!
GRB

[Ole]

Wow nice haul!

[Slow Elk 45/70]

Yup, definatly zink, but if you send them to me, I'll pay the shipping to help you get them out of your way...

[Ron B.]

I was worried they were either zinc or steel also. I asked Dave about it. The guy was pretty sharp. He told me he would not use either; but these were definitely lead wws. Plus, after you smelted a few thousand lead wws, all you need do is pick a zinc one up. It's pretty easy to tell the difference. Well, the zinc ones anyway. Iron's a little different; at least for me. Thank God I haven't ran across too many of either, out this way.

Thanks!
GRB

[Hickory]

One of the best deals I ever made on Wheel Weights was about 20 years ago.
I stopped at an old run down garage/gas station to get gas. While walking past the open doors to pay for the gas I looked in side and noticed a number of 5 gal. buckets of what appeared to be w-w's.

While paying my money I asked the attendant "if he had any Wheel Weights he wanted to get rid of?" (I found out a long time ago not to ask to buy them with the first question. Save that question for later)

I only remember once ever seeing a persons face change from dull to delight in an instant.
" Why sure," he said coming out from behind the counter." I've got a bunch you can have. I've been wondering for years how to get rid of them."

It was a good thing I was driving my pick-up, because the load was enormous. 14 full 5 gal buckets and one about 3/4 full, I new that I should offer him money for them and I did but he said that having them out of his hair was all he wanted.
I still have 2 or 3 buckets left.

[Ole]

One of the best deals I ever made on Wheel Weights was about 20 years ago.
I stopped at an old run down garage/gas station to get gas. While walking past the open doors to pay for the gas I looked in side and noticed a number of 5 gal. buckets of what appeared to be w-w's.

While paying my money I asked the attendant "if he had any Wheel Weights he wanted to get rid of?" (I found out a long time ago not to ask to buy them with the first question. Save that question for later)

I only remember once ever seeing a persons face change from dull to delight in an instant.
" Why sure," he said coming out from behind the counter." I've got a bunch you can have. I've been wondering for years how to get rid of them."

It was a good thing I was driving my pick-up, because the load was enormous. 14 full 5 gal buckets and one about 3/4 full, I new that I should offer hem money for them and I did but he said that having them out of his hair was all he wanted.
I still have 2 or 3 buckets left.

Wow what a haul.

I stopped at about 15 out of town places about 2 weeks ago, got almost 2 full buckets for free, and felt very fortunate.

[Rockchucker]

Some people have all the luck.

[tommag]

I think Carpetman has it nailed. New ww's, never having been spun, haven't gotten used to centrifical force, and will get dizzy when shot out of a rifled bbl. They could be used successfully in a smooth bbl., but expect them to stagger like drunken sailors when exposed to the rpm's of rifling.
If you sent them to me, I would be happy to get them acclimated to rpm's.

[swheeler]

You lucky dog!

[hydraulic]

mtgrs has the right idea. I lucked into a similar situation. Nephew worked for a tire shop and they were getting rid of their lead WW's, have no idea why, and he brought me a dozen boxes of brand new WW's. I went down to the local Ford dealer and made a trade. He got the new WW's and I get all their used ones weekly. I'm now ahead about 10 to 1 and still picking them up. Of course, the fact that I have bought nine new pickups from them, over the years, had nothing to do with it.