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Thread: HELP! Where's the Wheel Weight lead gone?

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    HELP! Where's the Wheel Weight lead gone?

    So I went and got a bucket of wheel weights from the local tire guy and what would you know 2/3 steel, 2/6 stick-on made of something different (lead/zinc?) and 1/6 max what i was after :-(

    Any suggestion on where to get the real deal or maybe someone has a hording of weights they may want to part with (I will even pay with Waikato if required).


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    As Bob Dylan said "Time's are a changing". Lead is now considered to be a Hazardous product so there is movement over to Zinc weights ,I did not know of steel ?. So to counter this toxic material ,it's out . The flat square ones should be of pure lead .
    Your only hope is to secure it while you can from where you can get it or to get a local foundry to make up whatever recipe you want ?.
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    hmmm yes some of the square ones were quite hard and some obviously soft lead. But yes steel seems to predominate.

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    I saw a lead keel from a yacht being cut up with a chainsaw once... go ask a scrap metal dealer for some.
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    Use enough gun

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    Thought of making a driving band out of something else that's cheap and swaging it onto the cast bullets?

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    Wheel weights have gone the way of Linotype, unobtainium.
    Straangely I tried to give away about 20 kg of lead on here a few years back and it was hard work! nobody wanted it, a lot was already into ingots and #2 lyman mix.
    I gave a lot to a guy at work to make sinkers.

    If you ever see anyone recovering large older telecom cables from ducting or inground......many were lead wrapped, You could have a shot (pun intended)
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    Or just cast the zinc weights?
    An itch ... is ... a desire to scratch

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordite View Post
    Or just cast the zinc weights?
    Nah they don't cast well and make terrible slag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnd View Post
    Wheel weights have gone the way of Linotype, unobtainium.
    Straangely I tried to give away about 20 kg of lead on here a few years back and it was hard work! nobody wanted it, a lot was already into ingots and #2 lyman mix.
    I gave a lot to a guy at work to make sinkers.

    If you ever see anyone recovering large older telecom cables from ducting or inground......many were lead wrapped, You could have a shot (pun intended)

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    Quote Originally Posted by 40mm View Post
    I saw a lead keel from a yacht being cut up with a chainsaw once... go ask a scrap metal dealer for some.
    I tried, he was out of it all together. I will try and visit again at some stage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 300CALMAN View Post
    I tried, he was out of it all together. I will try and visit again at some stage.
    Pull the lead head nails off your neighbours roof.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by 257weatherby View Post
    Pull the lead head nails off your neighbours roof.....
    I would love to try explaining that to Mr Plod...

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    Yeah all the new ones are zink

    You are better to use pure lead and add tin to suit anyway I use 20-1 in my black powder rifles
    Some use 16-1 that’s why it’s good you add enough tin to get the hardness you want

    Wheel waights are not adjustable unless you want to go harder
    I have a really reliable Source of both pure lead and tin which most won’t have available to them though
    Definitely getting harder to find good Sources

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    Quote Originally Posted by berg243 View Post
    have heaps of old lead sleeves from when i was a cable jointer .
    That would indeed be useful

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    Or any other lead scrap

 

 

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