lead wheel weights

[Bill Verburg]

Anyone else get hit up by the recent ban on lead wheel weights?

apparently lead is no longer allowed, so they confiscated all the old lead ones and are using Zinc now, guess they had to do something w/ it once they took it out of the oil.

I needed $60 worth of the new buggers, 160g

These people won't be happy till we are all walking 100% of the time

[lupin..the..3rd]

you can cast your own from used fishing weights. $60 for 160g of zinc??? yikes.

[DRACO A5OG]

Is this in Cali Too ???

Hell, may need to straighten out my wheels again, last time they got it so straight I didn't need weights

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Bill Verburg

Anyone else get hit up by the recent ban on lead wheel weights?

apparently lead is no longer allowed, so they confiscated all the old lead ones and are using Zinc now, guess they had to do something w/ it once they took it out of the oil.

I needed $60 worth of the new buggers, 160g

These people won't be happy till we are all walking 100% of the time

Your last sentence says it well...

[teenerted1]

just melt down your cast lead bullets

[Quicksilver]

Originally Posted by Bill Verburg

. . .
These people won't be happy till we are all walking 100% of the time

Uhhh, do you realize the environmental impact of the worn synthetic rubber compounds from shoe tread? This combined with the particulate contamination arising from the abrasive action inherent in every footstep is an under reported health and environment hazard just ticking like a bomb in the background of daily life.

!!! IT IS ISSUES LIKE THESE THAT ARE PUSHING THE MORTALITY RATE OF HUMANS OVER THEIR LIFETIME TO A NUMBER THAT IS EFFECTIVELY 100%!!!!!




(uhhhh.... seriously now... the number of immortals was 10 times as high 100 years ago!)
[immortals 100 years ago]=X
[immortals today]=Y
(X x 10) = Y

[/sarcasm]

[DRACO A5OG]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

just melt down your cast lead bullets

How about after we pull the slug out of their peanut heads

[bkreigsr]

my wheel guy has been using a titanium infused flexible tape on my track wheels - better than sliced bread,
....have not lost one yet and it's easier for him to get exact.
I love it and wish it were around 20 years ago.
so far, he hasn't charged me any premium over what he used to charge me with the lead break-off weights.
Bill K

[vracer]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

my wheel guy has been using a titanium infused flexible tape on my track wheels

Titanium? Are you sure? It is a VERY light metal.

[petevb]

Originally Posted by vracer

Titanium? Are you sure? It is a VERY light metal.

Maybe he means Tungsten?

I'm switching to depleted uranium. Lower profile = less wind resistance and more caliper clearance.

Why else do we care what the weights are made out of?

[Flieger]

I switched away from lead fishing sinkers years ago- I don't like handling them and I don't like knowing I am contaminating the water. The split shot type I got were zinc, IIRC, but I also got some harder, more durable Bismuth bullet style weights for Texas/Carolina rigs.

I think that switching away from lead is a good idea. I am surprized California has not done this yet, or not made it known.

Depleated Uranium does sound like a good idea. Stronger and denser than lead.

I think they had some Tungsten advertized but they were more expensive- harder to process I believe do to having the highest melting point of all pure metals. They were even denser and harder than the Bismuth I believe.

[bkreigsr]

okay tungstun, I thought that didn't sound right
Bill K

[Hodgey]

Originally Posted by DRACO A5OG

How about after we pull the slug out of their peanut heads

Don't contaminate the lead.....

[dicklague]

Originally Posted by Flieger

I switched away from lead fishing sinkers years ago- I don't like handling them and I don't like...........

I think that switching away from lead is a good idea. I am surprized California has not done this yet, or not made it known.

Depleated Uranium does sound like a good idea. Stronger and denser than lead.

Bismuth I believe.

You are too bright a guy to have bought this lead BS. Even if you live in California......you don't have to listen to the politician's lies and misstatements and made up science.

Your neighbor Sen. Fran Paveley is a perfect example.......don't get me started.

OH YOU JUST DID!!!

[cgarr]

Didn't they make a fluid ring that would go on with the wheel and keep it in balance?

[Flieger]

How could you get the fluid to stay opposed to the heavy spot in the wheel? It is not like centrifugal force would help since the wheel is too smooth/round for it to somehow force water into a light spot created by less material.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by dicklague

You are too bright a guy to have bought this lead BS. Even if you live in California......you don't have to listen to the politician's lies and misstatements and made up science.

Your neighbor Sen. Fran Paveley is a perfect example.......don't get me started.

OH YOU JUST DID!!!

So, you want to keep lead being processed for wheel weights, of which many will end up flung off into the environment? This isn't an ethanol debate. I don't like seeing big chunks of weight on my wheels. I bet F1 uses tungsten.

[cstreit]

Originally Posted by Flieger

So, you want to keep lead being processed for wheel weights, of which many will end up flung off into the environment? This isn't an ethanol debate. I don't like seeing big chunks of weight on my wheels. I bet F1 uses tungsten.

Flung back into the environment? Aw God No! Put it back in the lab where it was created. Er.. Wait...

[Flieger]

I don't drink water runoff from lead mines. And I avoid eating swordfish and other high-mercury fish which have been contaminated with fly ash from coal burning.

[RWebb]

I haven't heard of this, Bill. Maybe it is a NY state law?