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  1. 08-28-2013, 01:46 PM #1
    gamma50
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    non lead wheel weights

    a video please watch?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOlOB...Befu5le8FwHlTz

    also this page tells which states are making lead illegal.

    http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/PollutionPrev...eelweights.cfm

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...electedIndex=0
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  2. 08-29-2013, 12:14 PM #2
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    Thanks for the video, but I haven't had any trouble identifying lead in 40 years...
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    Great video.
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  4. 08-29-2013, 09:54 PM #4
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    I got burned on 80 lbs of wheel weights $40, Iowa does not use WWs anymore, but truck WWs are still lead and I got 200 lb off a older man at a truck stop, those are the big 5 oz and larger weights and he had a great attitude towards the federal government and state with all their stupid laws. good people still out there.
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  5. 08-30-2013, 07:01 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by mdi View Post
    Thanks for the video, but I haven't had any trouble identifying lead in 40 years...
    +1 One of the awesome benefits of the internet I guess. I've been IDing lead since about 1970 and only in the last few years have I come to understand I needed elaborate instructions to get it right. It's a wonder my guns didn't disown me.
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  6. 08-30-2013, 09:10 AM #6
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    There is now a lot more non lead WW in the batches i have collected. They are getting harder to acquire.

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    This explains the huge increase in non-lead WWs as of late.
    Take a kid to the range, you'll both be glad you did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by remy3424 View Post
    This explains the huge increase in non-lead WWs as of late.
    Yep, and it really angers me...
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    1 more link and its the high road but if you scroll down past 2 ads they show wheel weight id pics but no pics but some very good abbreviations for the different metals that are on wheel weights, and I found these to be more help than the video,I found a lot of Fe in my new batch of WWs. and some PZin and a lot of MC, AW.most thankfully a lot of nice P, which I hope is lead.

    http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i....html&amp&
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  10. 08-30-2013, 06:43 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by gamma50 View Post
    I got burned on 80 lbs of wheel weights $40, Iowa does not use WWs anymore, but truck WWs are still lead and I got 200 lb off a older man at a truck stop, those are the big 5 oz and larger weights and he had a great attitude towards the federal government and state with all their stupid laws. good people still out there.
    The last bucket I got from the shop that has our tire account is over 50% 4oz zinc ww's. Lot's of trucks going to them.
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