what to do with zinc ww?

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As a natural progression to the things I dearly love I have started putting together a casting outfit and collecting material for bullets.

The last pail of ww has a pile of clip on and stick on weights in it.

Is there any practical use for them for someone that doesn't scuba dive?

Anyone know if there is such a thing as a bottom bouncer mould? :p

Thanks gents, been learning a bunch.
 
I have been schmelting mine into ingots. There are lots of guys in the states who use them for cannon balls and are willing to pay for the zinc.


Once I have enough I will start looking for a buyer
 
Stick on WW are steel or almost pure lead. Take a pair of side cutters and check them. Steel will not cut and lead will be easy to tell.Clip on WW are pretty much the same,with zinc being a little harder to cut than lead.I do the drop test on WW that are suspect.If it rings when you drop it on concrete put it aside as suspect content.If it thuds you have lead.There are quite a few jig and sinker mold manufacturers in Canada that you can use you suspect metal to turn into fishing tackle.
 
I guess that would take some weight though...maybe eventually. How much does a zinc cannon ball weight? :)

I did find bottom bouncer moulds, would that be a good option for zinc?

Although for the number of bottom bouncers I go through a Cabellas dozen is pretty cheap and lasts a long time...

I could buy a lifetime supply for the price of a mould...

mr.e moose said:
Stick on WW are steel or almost pure lead. Take a pair of side cutters and check them. Steel will not cut and lead will be easy to tell.Clip on WW are pretty much the same,with zinc being a little harder to cut than lead.I do the drop test on WW that are suspect.If it rings when you drop it on concrete put it aside as suspect content.If it thuds you have lead.There are quite a few jig and sinker mold manufacturers in Canada that you can use you suspect metal to turn into fishing tackle.
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Thanks for the reply. The question was what to do with zinc. I don't have an issue separating the lead from the other alloys, a tap on the lip of the tin pail tells me fine.
 
BrotherRockeye said:
As a natural progression to the things I dearly love I have started putting together a casting outfit and collecting material for bullets.

The last pail of ww has a pile of clip on and stick on weights in it.

Is there any practical use for them for someone that doesn't scuba dive?

Anyone know if there is such a thing as a bottom bouncer mould? :p

Thanks gents, been learning a bunch.
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You can melt them down, mold them into crosses and use them to fight vampires. Sure their not silver but hey, everybody has to take a "cut" in this economy!

Or...use enough of them to sink the bodies! ;)....otherwise...pretty much useless:)
 
Save 'em. If you don't wanna use them and can't find someone who does, sell them to a scrap metal dealer. Zinc is worth quite a bit more than lead. Personally, right now I use a little bit mixed with my lead to contaminate it and then "flux" with copper sulphate. It basically switches places with the zinc and I get a copper enriched alloy. Makes a very tough and resilient boolit without any real increase in hardness. Regular water quenched clip on wheel weight boolits crack and break up when mashed with a hammer but the exact same alloy with a tiny bit of copper and the boolits will mash flat...Some day when I have enough to warrant it, I am going to try casting boolits out of zinc. Apparently it's best to use an iron mold as the zinc can attack aluminum, plus it melts higher and the mold and melt must be hotter. IIRC, the resulting boolits are about 60% as heavy as a lead boolit from the same mold.
 
I sell the zinc off I straighten the steel WW's drill a hole in them and use them as sinkers im not willing to do that with zinc as I fear it may have worse effects then lead
 
silver69 said:
You can melt them down, mold them into crosses and use them to fight vampires. Sure their not silver but hey, everybody has to take a "cut" in this economy!

Or...use enough of them to sink the bodies! ;)....otherwise...pretty much useless:)
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melting down zinc can be deadly if you do not do so outside and have a proper respirator
 
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