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On 2/5/2015 6:09 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:49:24 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
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I don't think that wheel weights are hard (why would they be?).

They are. They are generally 0.5% antimony and 0.25% arsenic - the
rest being lead - and they are heat treated for hardness.

Do you know why they need to be hard?

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