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Thread: Harmonic balancer weights?

  1. 12-22-2015, 05:10 PM #1
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    Harmonic balancer weights?

    I just scored about fifty pounds of what the guy told me were harmonic balancer weights. Anybody ever seen/used these? I know they're lead, but not sure of the alloy. Any help would be appreciated.



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  2. 12-23-2015, 05:23 PM #2
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    Call Ford? Look up the msds?
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  3. 12-23-2015, 05:27 PM #3
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    Take it to your scrap yard and see if they can xray it and tell you what it is. When you drop it on cement does it make a clang or a thud?
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  4. 12-24-2015, 07:42 AM #4
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    Do you have any more information on which engines used lead in their harmonic balancers?
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    Mallory metal is used primarily. Its a tungsten alloy with nickle and other metals. I doubt there is any lead in there.
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  6. 12-24-2015, 09:51 PM #6
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    It's a definite THUD when I drop them, and they do scratch a bit using my thumbnail. The man I got them from said his Father used them to cast 44 bullets, but he didn't know what the alloy might be.
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    Mallory metal is hard and shiny afaik. It's usually machined I thought. Mallory metal wouldn't need those sleeves in there, they press this stuff into crankshafts and TiG weld it to balance crankshafts with.

    Stick a torch to the corner of one, if it melts like solder it's mainly lead, if it smokes greenish and whitish powdery smoke it is mainly zinc.
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  8. 12-25-2015, 09:01 PM #8
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    If it makes a good thud instead of a clang and you can scratch it with your nail its probly faily soft lead.
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