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  • anyone here have wheel weight scraps?

    Just curious if any board members have a shop. I need quite a bit of wheel weights for lead.
    "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
    "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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    I can set you up if you can wait until I get back in town on the 15th. Probably give you 25-50 lbs.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by diablo rojo View Post
      I can set you up if you can wait until I get back in town on the 15th. Probably give you 25-50 lbs.
      Sheeit, that would be awesome. The more the merrier! I'll bring the ammo and guns if you want to do some shooting!
      "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
      "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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      • #4
        I'll put it all together and shoot you a PM

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        • #5
          I hope I am being helpful and not captain obvious but, a lot of tire shops have buckets of used ones they dont need

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          • #6
            Originally posted by TEAMJACOB View Post
            I hope I am being helpful and not captain obvious but, a lot of tire shops have buckets of used ones they dont need
            Hopefully some of them are board members!
            "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
            "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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            • #7
              Originally posted by CJ View Post
              Hopefully some of them are board members!
              They are

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              • #8
                Originally posted by CJ View Post
                Just curious if any board members have a shop. I need quite a bit of wheel weights for lead.


                AMMO!!!

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                • #9
                  Fishing weights?
                  Check your self bro , you're not that cool.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by paul_376 View Post
                    Fishing weights?
                    it's all lead!
                    "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                    "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                    • #11
                      I'll ask a stupid question... Are you melting it down into a mold on your own? Just curious how that works? A kiln or something?

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by jewozzy View Post
                        I'll ask a stupid question... Are you melting it down into a mold on your own? Just curious how that works? A kiln or something?
                        Lead doesn't really have that high a melting point, a kiln wouldn't be needed.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by jewozzy View Post
                          I'll ask a stupid question... Are you melting it down into a mold on your own? Just curious how that works? A kiln or something?
                          Yes, you use a furnace to melt the wheel weights, and remove the metal tabs and other slag and crap that's in with them. Wheel weights have small amounts of antimony, arsenic, and tin in them, so they are a little harder than pure lead, but that's about the hardness I need so it works out well, I don't need to make a different alloy. Melt them into ingots, then you cast them into molds, lube and resize the projectiles and shoot them.
                          "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                          "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                          • #14
                            I have quite a lot, I will see what I can round up.
                            Originally posted by lincolnboy
                            After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by CJ View Post
                              Yes, you use a furnace to melt the wheel weights, and remove the metal tabs and other slag and crap that's in with them. Wheel weights have small amounts of antimony, arsenic, and tin in them, so they are a little harder than pure lead, but that's about the hardness I need so it works out well, I don't need to make a different alloy. Melt them into ingots, then you cast them into molds, lube and resize the projectiles and shoot them.
                              Damn dude, you're making your own lead bullets? That's impressive!

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