Are all stick on tire weights pure lead?

[meltleadalot2693]

Are all stick on tire weights pure lead? Are all the unpainted stick on weights pure lead? I know about how the painted stick ons are usually hard lead.

 

[SaltyBuckster]

Anything made for wheel weights is not pure lead.

 

[meltleadalot2693]

some of the unpainted stick ons i have are bluish in color and have a multicolor tint to them. they are as soft as pure lead.

 

[Fatman]

x2 with Doc

 

[Hawnjigs]

Not pure, but the segmented white tape stickies weigh out at est 99+% lead. Some of the long strap black tape ones are harder.

 

[meltleadalot2693]

Are some SOWW pure enough where I can melt 'em in with my pure lead without messing up my pure lead?

 

[Fatman]

Looking at this site everything may not be lead http://www.ammcoats.com/wheel-weights and this thread from the gang over at Cast Boollits are that Zinc stick on weights are starting to show up!!!!!! http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=110034

Time to sort the sticky ones too.

 

[meltleadalot2693]

I like pure lead because of the neat crystals and the mulitcolor tint to it.

 

[Hawnjigs]

My soft stickies ingots from a big melt batch did not skin over with pretty colors, so I believe they will compromise pure.

 

[meltleadalot2693]

So don't mix them? I have some that look and feel like pure and are multicolored. They have a bluish tint to it. Could I melt those in with it?

 

[Fatman]

I was just providing plenty of information for Melt since he asked for it.

 

[SaltyBuckster]

I like pure lead because of the neat crystals and the mulitcolor tint to it.

It's a waste to make a sinker out of pure lead anyways.

 

[meltleadalot2693]

I know not to use pure lead for sinkers. I use hard lead for my sinkers and will look for soft(not pure) lead to make split shot. Anyone have a pic of their ingots that are made from stick ons? Are they soft enough for split shot?

 

[ScottV]

Here's the thread I started when I melted my stick on weights.
http://www.jigcraft.com/jigcraft/showthread.php?tid=3020

 

[Hawnjigs]

Here's an ingot of sticky wheel weight lead from last Summer. Still shiny from tin content, no visible antimony grain.

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