Wheel Weights Pricing?

[Two Flints]

Hello SSS,

Having never done this before, and before I start approaching my local tire shops, what would be a fair price be for a 5 pound bucket of discarded clip-on-type wheel weights?

Thanks,

Two Flints

[French Jack]

Most all of the shops around will give them to you if you want to pick them up.  At least they do so around here.

[Hell-Er High Water]

Just be aware of what you will be getting.

The workers at the tire shops that I have been to don't really care too much what goes into the bucket of used wheel weights.

You will find the clip on type, the stick on type, some wierd ones that look like they are pot metal and not lead at all, strips of tape from the stick on type, valve cores, valve stems, cigarette butts, gum and candy wrappers, etc, etc ,etc.

Valve stems make an exceptionally smokey, stinky mess when one accidently gets in the lead pot.

Do your rendering of the wheel weights with much, much more than normal lead casting ventilation as the wheel weights will have dirt and oil on them that produce smoke and stink.

All in all, wheel weights are usually a good, cheap source of bullet metal for most lower velocity applications.

HHW

[St. George]

Around here - they're free.

'Smelting' them is best done outdoors, with a bit of a breeze.

I've found that if you cast up some .38's or .45's for the shop once in awhile - they toss them in a clean bucket and keep the trash out.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!