went to my local tire store today to pick up some ww all in all got 30lbs got home and started sorting and came up with 15 lbs of lead one pound Zn and the rest steel but mixed into the mix was a weight i have never seen it is almost like a foam metal i will post some pic soon any ideas as to what it is made out of?
Last edited by justing; 06-07-2013 at 06:38 PM.
I have found those also.
Ask your tire guy. I got mine from the junk yard.
Found them out here as well. I throw them in with my steel clips. Weight is weight. 120$ a TON adds up. Well, kinda....😇
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I find lots of metal filled rubber stick on. Is that what you're seeing?
That's all some tire shops are using now.
I just came in from sorting 1/2 of a 5 gal. bucket of mixed,WW. I am getting almost 50% zink, some steel, lots of the rubber-lead, weights. almost not of the WW with clips,mostly all stick ons.....
Yep, that **** comes on a big roll, you pull out how ever much the balancer tells you the tire needs per the scale ruler and whack it off with the cutter, I laugh at the guys pushing it at the trade shows!, I tell them we can still buy LEAD here in Oregon!
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so are thay lead?
Nope. This is what the anti-lead nazis have come up to replace lead stickons.
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Guns should only be allowed in places where people don't want to be shot.
there ya go
We've got anti-fluoride nazis in our parts. Why don't these people get a life - by taking up shooting and hunting for example? Your anti-lead nazis could held eliminate lead by casting boolits and shooting it away. Or better yet, they could remove it from the scrap recyclers and give it boolit casters!
Anyway, I don't see much wheel weights in my parts - the fishing sinker casters get most of it. Never seen one of those rubber ones, only the plain stick-on's.
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I found 5 or 6 of those in my last bucket.
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Ditto. I found 4 tonight. First time seeing those. Every day less and less real lead weights.
Originally Posted by Larry D.
Whoa - haven't seen those yet - and don't wanna.
I found a few in my ww's last pickup from my local, had me tossed for a while, tested with wire cutters..........soft & foam like, but no real weight in them.........why would they use them ?????????
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They are made by 3M.
I think they are clay based or something, I know its proprietary.
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...ghts/Products/
The problem is they work really darn well as wheel weights
Last edited by gofastman; 06-09-2013 at 01:48 AM.
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I bet they smoke when you smelt them LOL
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