I just did ten heaping buckets of wheel weights. A buddy got them from a tire shop. He assured my friend they were all lead. No zinc or steel. When I got done there was around 300-350 pounds of zinc and steel wheel weights. Not to mention two five gallon buckets of trash, valve stems, lug nuts, dirt, rocks, candy wrappers, gloves and chew cans. I did end up with 835 pounds of five pound lead ingots. I’ll cast him some bullets in exchange for the lead.
I ended up sorting all ten buckets. It went pretty fast. While one batch was heating I would sort more and add to the batch. My lead pot will hold 125 pounds so it went pretty fast.
I never knew there were steel wheel weights. They were marked FE and a magnet would pick them up. First for me.
The few zinc I missed all floated on the lead. I didn’t temp my lead but must have been well below the zinc melting point.
