I've heard it can be done easily, but no one has bothered to explain HOW. Do I just melt them, pour them into a mold, lube and press? Is there some other metal that needs to be added to them in the melting pot? Need some help, as I'll be picking up about half of a six foot truck bed load of them this weekend!
Wheel Weights Into Bullets?
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Danny Abear
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It's a little more involved than that.
Check out - -www.ladc.us/CastBulletNotes.htm
Personalized lessons will cost you some of them weights/lol
Check out - -www.ladc.us/CastBulletNotes.htm
Personalized lessons will cost you some of them weights/lol
kajuntriton
*Banned*
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!!
Be careful, some of todays wheelweights are made of zinc. If you get any of them into the melt, you will ruin it for bullets. The alloy just won't fill out correctly in the mold. Check the castboolits web-site for more information.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
Be careful, some of todays wheelweights are made of zinc. If you get any of them into the melt, you will ruin it for bullets. The alloy just won't fill out correctly in the mold. Check the castboolits web-site for more information.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
Mr_Willson
rifleman
soldering wire melted into boolits 
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!!
Be careful, some of todays wheelweights are made of zinc. If you get any of them into the melt, you will ruin it for bullets. The alloy just won't fill out correctly in the mold. Check the castboolits web-site for more information.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
Myth, the Zinc used in the new wheel weights melts at a much higher temprature than lead, They usually float to the top intact and can be skimmed off.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!!
Be careful, some of todays wheelweights are made of zinc. If you get any of them into the melt, you will ruin it for bullets. The alloy just won't fill out correctly in the mold. Check the castboolits web-site for more information.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
Damn Lee,
You are #1652 in 1998 and I earned #1827 in 2007. That is 175 civilian distinguished badges in 9 years. Those things seem pretty hard to come by.
Dan
The castboolits web-site contains numerous dire warnings about zinc wheel weights. The collective wisdom and experience available on that site is immense. Check out the information on that web-site and make up your own mind. Remember, when (if?
) the zinc gets into the melt, it cannot be seperated any more than you can take the water out of the bourbon & branch water.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
) the zinc gets into the melt, it cannot be seperated any more than you can take the water out of the bourbon & branch water.Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
To Dan,
Yep. That's why the Distinguished Badges and Presidents 100 Tabs are so coveted. They don't just toss 'em out like Mardi Gras doubloons. It took me 7 years, 5 rifle barrels, wheelbarrows full of ammunition and many, many miles on the old Volvo to earn my Badge.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
Yep. That's why the Distinguished Badges and Presidents 100 Tabs are so coveted. They don't just toss 'em out like Mardi Gras doubloons. It took me 7 years, 5 rifle barrels, wheelbarrows full of ammunition and many, many miles on the old Volvo to earn my Badge.
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
The castboolits web-site contains numerous dire warnings about zinc wheel weights. The collective wisdom and experience available on that site is immense. Check out the information on that web-site and make up your own mind. Remember, when (if?
Commodore Lee
Distinguished Rifleman #1652 (1998)
Keep the melt around 700-800 degrees and they will indeed float to the surface.
correct, They allo the zinc wheelweights with something that raises the melting temprature to where they are not compatable with lead. I think they do that b/c pure zinc doesnt make a good wheelweight. I Find them every so often in my buckets of WW and have thrown them in the pot, never had a problem.
I think the problem with zinc mixed with the lead was from some kind of battery lead or other lead alloy which caused all the problems.
One other thing have you ever ever heard of zinc bullets? I got some in some old reloading components, thought they were lead but would not melt in my pot or with a plumbing torch. They would only sweat with heat from a cutting torch. I threw them away, but now wish I would have kept them for the novelty.
