Now wheel weights are evil too?

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Mountain Doctor	Now wheel weights are evil too?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3438 (04/21/09 01:43 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None They will be made illegal here in Washington soon. I don't know about other states. Seems they fly off the cars and get run over and turned to some toxic dust that kills all living things in a 100 mile radius. Sooooooooo, it looks like my connection for a bucket of wheel weights from the tire dealer will dry up soon. It's getting harder and harder to exercise our Second Ammendment rights economically.
Aubullet		#1	[-]
Posts: 1126 (04/21/09 01:53 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	MD Won't be long before they ban potatoes, as they have heard some people shoot spud guns!
beanstrung		#2	[-]
Posts: 5188 (04/21/09 02:02 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Yup, lead has now been determined to be to us human folk, what the equivalent of what Kryptonite is to Superman. You touch it, you die. You're just lucky that they passed the law before you actually touched one and died. Glad that you're still with us! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand? Joel 3:9-10
Mountain Doctor		#3	[-]
Posts: 3439 (04/21/09 02:04 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Whew. That was close. I always thought that if I stayed on the starting point of the lead particle's trajectory rather than the ending point I'd be OK. Silly doctor!
beanstrung		#4	[-]
Posts: 5190 (04/21/09 02:11 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I hope you don't have any of the "old model" X-Ray vests... you could be endangering your staff and your patients with those deadly bags of lead... just one little rip in the fabric, the lead gets exposed, and PLUMBUM! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand? Joel 3:9-10 Last Edited By: beanstrung 04/21/09 02:14 PM. Edited 1 times.
mkgr22		#5	[-]
Posts: 185 (04/21/09 06:27 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	This is off the topic, but how do they propose to balance wheels without wheel weights?
JoeTinVA		#6	[-]
Posts: 905 (04/21/09 06:40 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Now I know why I'm the way I am, never should have chewed sinkers when I was a young lad, or ate rock salt from the road, or played with mercury or well you get the picture. Who can I sue !
beanstrung		#7	[-]
Posts: 5191 (04/21/09 07:00 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Here's the scoop: http://www.leadfreewheels.org/problem.shtml ...and of course, the lead wheel weight "poses a significant lead poisoning threat to poor and minority populations". (women & children, hit hardest) But, I fear we are again wandering from the focus of the forum, with me as guilty as anyone. Does anyone know of a low-cost alternate source for lead, for our fellow members in the states that are enacting this misguided effluence? Mountain Doc needs some cheep lead, can we help him out? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand? Joel 3:9-10
Mountain Doctor		#8	[-]
Posts: 3441 (04/21/09 07:51 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I know it's wrong but I can't help it... If all this stuff is so bad for me, why have I lived to the ripe old age of 44? I grew up before catalytic converters, shoulder belts, child seats, sterile bottles, alcohol based hand sanitizer, and lead and fume free paint. I never heard of a bicycle helmet, and I also played with mercury and lead fishing weights. By all standards, I should be a three eyed mutant, not a successful medical doctor. OK, rant over for now.
John Moses		#9	[-]
Posts: 172 (04/21/09 08:01 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	At my grade school, when the boys went down the stairs, we would all smack the loose piece of steam pipe insulation & make it spin. There were about 15 boys in my class, and running to recess, we all kept that chunk o asbestos spinning. Today in one of my least favorite gun stores, the (idiot) proprietor was telling me how I would surely die casting bullets. I told him in 90 years or so I'd be dead anyway.
Mountain Doctor		#10	[-]
Posts: 3442 (04/21/09 08:04 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Heck. I used to swim in creeks, rivers, and oceans. NON-FILTERED water for crying out loud. I'd even drink from my buddie's soda (or beer) can.
JoeTinVA		#11	[-]
Posts: 906 (04/21/09 09:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, maybe I should have taken better care of myself, had a wall hanger 8.1 cm AAA repaired last June. Was that caused by wheel weights ? I used to use them for castin bullets ! By the way, being serious, never ignore feeling a pulse in your stomach !
Carl Gustav		#12	[-]
Posts: 3360 (04/21/09 09:48 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	If lead goes away, maybe we can use spent uranium instead. Carl
Highpower	Now wheel weights are evil too?	#13	[-]
Posts: 969 (04/21/09 10:44 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Whew! You had me worried there for a minute. I used to have several hundred pounds of wheel weights and linotype print bars stored in my basement. Thankfully I no longer have any of that evil material hanging around the house. I converted it all into plain old ingots, so it's safe now..... --------------------------- He who lives by the sword, should go out and get a really nice sword.
ParallaxBill		#14	[-]
Posts: 16216 (04/22/09 05:37 AM) Owner/operator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"This is off the topic, but how do they propose to balance wheels without wheel weights? " Obviously with some new type of synthetic creation that no one knows what toxins they will reveal some 50 years from now. But rest assured they will costs far more and work less efficiently. Parallax *Lee Enfield Collector's Society member #3* *Mauser Shooter's Association member #17* Forum administrator for the Carolina C&R Shooting & Collecting Club,
beanstrung		#15	[-]
Posts: 5192 (04/22/09 08:00 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, as long as we are off-topic, today is "Earth Day". The day on which the members of the Environmentalist Church worship their earth god. Sacrifices to the earth god can be made in the form of carbon-credits. The earth god must be appeased through these sacrifices so that she does not inflict punishment upon us in the form of climate change. Personally, I kept a couple of cases of 1-pound R-12 Freon cans, from way back when they were $0.99/can. So now, each Earth-Day, I spit in the eye of the false earth god by popping a top on a can of R-12 and letting it spew! Who knows, I might even enjoy a big bonfire this evening... toss on a few old tires just to get the smoke nice and dark. (to make my "carbon footprint" easily visible) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand? Joel 3:9-10 Last Edited By: beanstrung 04/22/09 08:04 AM. Edited 2 times.
glock40man		#16	[-]
Posts: 175 (04/22/09 10:02 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	When will all this nonsense end !Seems like every thing has gone beyound the beyound's. I guess they expect you to eat like a rabbit and live in a box of cotton. I'am with beanstrung, think I will build me a tire bonfire to,except I will add some used motor oil ! Yup,get er nice and smoky. We can plead temp insanity,the devil made us do it,the evil black rifle demon made us do it.That way the ACLU,and the liberals will ensure we will get off.
beanstrung		#17	[-]
Posts: 5194 (04/22/09 10:37 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	To ParallaxBill's point, In the mid 1980's automotive air-conditioning R-12 refrigerant was about $1.00 a can. It worked great, and was affordable. Unfortunately, it was spiritually revealed to the Environmentalists that it was making an unseeable "hole" in an "ozone layer" that none of us had ever heard of before... So, now we have the replacement, R-134 which does not cool nearly as efficiently as the old R-12, and now costs about $10.00 a can. Don't even get me started on "one gallon per flush" toilets that now have to be flushed five times to get rid of everything that used to disappear on the first flush with a "real" toilet. You still end up using just as much water, but you waste 10 minutes of your time trying to get everything gone... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand? Joel 3:9-10
Rustybore		#18	[-]
Posts: 861 (04/22/09 02:08 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I picked up a bucket of wheel weights from the local tire shop a few weeks ago. Mixed in the bucket are the new replacement type weights. Some are made of some sort of funky material and have the standard metal clips. A new product being used is of a steel material, segmented little squares of 1/4oz. each, attached to a sticky strip of material, like tape, which, I assume, is taped to the wheel instead of clipped. Just when I get interested in casting my own bullets, the main source of lead is going to disappear. Whatever the state of Washington does, Oregon will copy. Kevin in Or.
44henry		#19	[-]
Posts: 125 (04/22/09 02:21 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Hey Rustybore, Those segemented squares with the sticky backing are not replacements for conventional wheel weights. Those are wheel weights for fancy wheels which don't have the standard lip around the edge like typical steel rims. Without the lip, the lead weight can't be hammered on. Also, lead weights look really bad on those fancy rims. So you stick them to the inside of the rim where they can't be seen. Most of them I saw before were lead; I guess I do remember seeing some which were shinier. I think that was to make them match the chrome wheel better, in case they were seen. This was all back before 2000 when I stopped working on cars. 44henry
BALLSANDBULLETS		#20	[-]
Posts: 107 (04/22/09 08:39 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	As to replacement weights, anything heavy should work. I think I'll strap some little vials of mercury to my wheels next time I have a tire replaced. That way I won't have to worry about lead poisoning. I was just starting to consider getting a pot and casting some of my own muzzleloader bullets and now this. Aren't we allowed to do anything fun anymore? Montani Semper Liberi