Score! Score! Score!

[smith crazy]

Well, today I got my service truck serviced! (Oil change and stuff.)

We have a special arrangement, my service center and I. They get to service my truck every 3000 miles and the company pays them for that and I get to take their wheel weights for free!

What an arrangement!

Here is a picture of my score.

The bucket is only half full but that should be about 50lbs. @ 160gr that is only 2187.5, @ 200gr it is 1750.

Just to let you know, I don't shoot that many in 2 months. The pile of wheel weights is getting bigger!

It's like the arrangement my wife and I have, 50/50.


I make it; she spends it!

She breaks it; I fix it!

She cooks it; I eat it!

 

[imashooter2]

Nothing wrong with free lead in any quantity!

 

[Paul5388]

Skip,

It's always nice to get free WWs!

It may take a while to figure out the new format on the forum, like what the little smiley faces are like.

 

[Skip Sackett]

I understand

Yeah, Paul, I know what you mean about the new forum.

It will be fun trying to figure it out!

I had my stuff redone this morning and now that it has been reloaded I need to reset it all again! Not a problem when coming to progress!


It will be much fun!

 

[Paul5388]

Now I need to figure out how to subscribe to the whole reloading section. I think I'm missing out on things!

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

Nice Score. I try to visit the local tire shops around here every couple of months to see what they want to get rid of. Free lead is great.

Rooster

 

[JD 500]

Congrats on the goodies. Just found some good plated and cannelured bullets that had been discontinued by the mfr, for my 500. So I bought 1000.

 

[Bear Country 88]

Lead wheel weights going away...

http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1021157_green-groups-ask-epa-to-ban-lead-wheel-weights

The coalition estimates that 3.5 million pounds of lead weights are shed every year. While lead has been banned in most other consumer uses--including leaded gasoline, plumbing, and paint--the tire weights remain legal in most of the US.

They are already banned in the European Union and in the state of Washington, and several other states are considering similar measures. They will be phased out in Maine by the end of next year. The U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Defense have also stopped using them.

In contrast to wheel weights, lead batteries for cars are the most widely recycled consumer product in the country. According to a 2005 report by the Battery Council International, more than 99 percent of lead from 12-Volt batteries is recaptured.

The substitute for lead wheel weights is simple: steel wheel weights, which now take roughly one-fifth of the market, according to the Michigan Ecology Center. Other alternatives are made of zinc or composite materials.

The EPA has 90 days to respond to the petition. Among the groups making the request are the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest environmental organization, and several organizations specifically concerned with lead poisoning.

 

[HAWKEYE10]

Lead poison

I believe the government spending money on health care and buyouts
will kill us long before wheel weights will. If government spending don't
kill us and a country like China takes us over we might wish we where
dead. I think the poor wheel weight is getting a bad rap. Don

 

[imashooter2]

http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1021157_green-groups-ask-epa-to-ban-lead-wheel-weights

The coalition estimates that 3.5 million pounds of lead weights are shed every year.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If 3.5 million pounds of WW were shed from cars every year, we wouldn't have to scrounge them. We'd take our buckets down to the highway and shovel up as many as we wanted from the 4 foot piles lining the road.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Thanks, Skip. You just reminded me that I'm about due to go pick up another bucketload.

 

[aeronca]

Be sure to seperate the ones that look like they are painted. They are a nickle alloy.