Questions for you experts out there in CBA land,
Like I've said before, I'm and old experienced reloader but a novice when it comes to cast lead bullet casting. I put a discussion on several weeks ago about some surplus military weights that I had purchased new. I stated that they seemed to be harder than ordinary old style ww's. I had one responder that said that the military did not use wheel weights and then I talked to some recent army veterans that said they knew that the HMV's did use balanced tires. I spent 7 years in Uncle Sam's army but my pay grade was much higher that a jeep or truck driver so I don't know much about military vehicle wheels. Here is my question of the day. I finally got around to casting some of them into ingots a few weeks ago and have been laid up for a couple or so weeks and am just now beginning to be myself. Today I pulled a couple of them off the rack and checked the edge with a thumb nail test. They appeared to be quite hard, apparently harder than the did when in the ww form. I dropped a couple of them on a concrete floor and they rang like a bell. I then dropped a couple of the wheel weights on the concrete and they landed with a dull thud. I then dropped a pure lead ingot on the floor and it landed with a dull thud. When I melted the wheel weights they appeared to have a lot of antimony or tin in them. I fluxed them several times and stirred a lot. Is there any reason why the would ring so and seem to be much harder than the WW's themselves were. .Am I imagining things or what.
I've got some interesting discussions to post that I think you will enjoy now that I can type again.
Mashburn
David a. Cogburn