On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 13:28:13 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 02:47:18 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 08:06:54 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote:

wrote:
On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 3:08:25 PM UTC-5, Terry Coombs wrote:
Anybody know what they're made of ?
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Snag

There is at least two types. One a lead alloy and the other zinc.

I just went to the tire shop to dig through the wheel weight bucket. The
plan was to just grab some for casting a lead hammer for a nice wood
handle I got. I had some battery terminals saved up as well for this.

Anyways, there seemed to all sorts of junk in the bucket that clearly
wasn't lead.

Some weights were clearly marked "Zn" while there were some that were
clearly lead, some that felt like lead but didn't look like it. It seems
they have pained or coated lead weights now too. There were some types of
plastic weights too, not sure what was inside them. I left those.

I had to sort the haul at home. A scribe confirmed the obviously lead ones
were probably lead. Lineman pliers easily sink right though those.

The dense lead-ish ones also cut easily, but had a coating of paint or
metal. Not really sure what it is. They felt too hard to be lead with a
scribe.

A few zinc ones slipped into my bag, and those are hard and do not cut at
all.

I'll have to melt the stuff down to separate the steel clips and other
crap, which should float to the top.

The zinc will float as well..but if you go over about 750-800F..they
may sublimate into the mix and the resulting bullets will be a pain in
the ass.


I would think ANY bullet in that area of the anatomy would be a
pain!!!

ROFLMAO!!
Indeed.

On the serious side..zinc contamination of bullet alloys will show up
as wildly unfilled bullets, a smearing inside the mould and wild
variations of bullet weight in the few you get that are actually
filled out.

I bought 100 llbs of "#2 Alloy" at a gunshow once for a significant
amount of money..took it home and it turned out to be a zinc alloy and
proven to be so by a spectroanalysis (friend in a local oilfield lab)

Next gunshow I was NOT the only guy demanding his money back from the
seller. Being a good guy..he payed us all back and left at the end of
the day weighing far more than when he arrived. He had bought it from
a company up in the Fresno area for pennies...shrug..and they sold him
zinc babbet.




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"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child,
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
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