"LDR" wrote in message
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On 25 May 2005 12:55:41 -0700, wrote:



Gunner wrote:
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Ayup. I have to work hard at scrounging Wheel Weights for bullet
casting. If so many were lost, it would be far easier to get some.
...

Don't the folks at tire shops & garages have plenty?

No. And there is steady competition from the folks who use them to
cast fishing weights.

(Snip)

I wanted wheel weights for slingshot ammo and went to a few gas
stations/tire businesses thinking I would be doing them a favor by
taking the lead off their hands. Not so. All of them say they have
companies picking them up (and paying for them) to recycle. Les Schwab,
whom I have been buying tires from for years, treated me like a pan
handler/.

Of course they did. The very notion that lead is valueless is absurd, the
stuff of housewife's tales. It is a commodity like anything else and is
valuable in the recycle business. How folks deduct that because a
substance is controlled that it has no value is beyond me. Wouldn't a
prudent individual conclude that old wheel weights can be melted to make
*new* wheel weights?

Harold