I've had a few 5 gallon buckets and a 30 gallon drum of wheel weights for a few years now and yesterday I finally decided to melt them down. I thought I had about 8-900 pounds turns out it was around 1050! My plan was to add 2% TIN in with everything so I divided it all into equal weight buckets. then I pre-weighed out my tin and started cooking.
At this point things were going pretty smooth. Then it started to get dark... Luckily I was almost done and we had a few headlights to light up the area. I was thinking I would end up with about 600-650 pounds.
Loaded everything up, went home and weighed it out.
Ended up with about 758 pounds! Minus the tin I added thats about a 70% recovery. All in all a pretty good day. I can't say the same for my hands and back today, haha but it was worth it. from start to finish it took 8.5 hours.