Another Bucket of Zinc wheel weights molten down and cast into ingots 

hey thanks for watching, it is not difficult to learn, there is just a lot of safety to think about and having the correct tools, and its always nice to make something from old scrap 👍

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These Wheel Weights are all Zinc, that is really hard stuff, the lead ones are very soft, the nice thing about lead is that it is just about the heaviest thing around and when molten everything floats on top, even the iron floats, very easy to skim off all the stuff that doesn't belong in there. Thanks for watching 👍👍👍

And it melts at a low temp, if you dont get it to hot there will be no dangerous fumes like you get when melting brass. Thanks for watching 👍

@@ralphmourik Yeah, I turned the pressure way down to melt it so as to not make it boil and make the fumes. It was some large ingots, that I had to melt down and make into more manageable ingots, I have a pic somewhere on my Instagram acct.

I have seen many videos on ways of reducing slag and salt does nothing according to what I have seen, I don't even use Borax. When melting Aluminium cans or these wheel weights there is always a lot of slag, it would be a waste of the salt or Borax.

Older ones are Lead, they started using Zinc in most cases but also Iron, It is very easy to find out what you are dealing with: Iron is magnetic and says Fe on it, Zinc says Zn on it and is very hard, test with a wire cutter to see if you can damage it, Lead is the heaviest and says Pb on it sometimes and can be cut very easy because it is soft. In some of my older videos I show the differences and how to identify what is what.

I am aware of that trick, this way you also get all the burned paint and dirt out though, next time I will try the magnet trick, Thanks for watching and commenting 👍👊

thanks for the tip, I have seen it before too, just need to look into how to set that up 👍

Older ones are lead, but because lead is bad for the environment they have been replaced by zinc and iron ones, easy to identify, lead is soft, zinc says ZN and is hard, and iron is magnetic 😋👍

hey Susan, the ingots don't go to the scrapyard, they are for remelting when doing casting projects. The stuff that I can not melt I do take to the scrapyard, like cables I don't strip, circuit boards and steel/iron.

This sounds interesting! I'll have a look into this, thanks for this info! 👍

Yes and collecting the steel clips, seems to work pretty good 👍

I did not have my angle grinder/cutter back then, and with the hacksaw it took less then 5 minutes. The wheel weights I get for free at a local car repair and tire center, I go there once or twice a year and can usually fill 2 of those buckets, I takes a bit to sort the Lead, Zinc and Iron, but for me its worth it 👍

I keep them for future casting projects, zinc is a very nice metal to cast and easy to melt. If I ever want to get rid of them my scrapyard will buy them. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍

Its absolutely tiny. About 30 grams per tonne

These were all Zinc, it is very easy to separate them, usually it says Zn for Zinc and Pb for Lead, what is important is to not overheat the metals, there are hardly any fumes when you keep the temp not to high above melting point, also melting outside helps disperse any fumes, wearing a resperator is also an option and propper PPE offcourse. Some people think Lead is like Uranium and are afraid to even look at it, just wash your hands after handeling Lead and you'll be fine. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍👊

@@ralphmourik thanks for the response, but I meant contaminated as in the zinc itself is intentionally or unintentionally alloyed with lead or some sort of heavy metal. Also I know lead isn’t that dangerous but I’m just kinda paranoid, I’d almost say I have a phobia of lead

@@dragonpug1452 As far as I know the Zinc wheel weights are pure Zinc unless stated otherwise, I have seen some that said ZnAl but never ZnPb. Zinc started to be used when Lead was no longer allowed so I highly doubt there is any Lead in them.

@@ralphmourik thank you so much

@@dragonpug1452 No problem, that is why I am on RU-vid. To be entertained, to learn and maybe to entertain and teach others. Happy and SAFE casting! 👍👊

Yes the ones that say Zn are pure Zinc. Some might say ZA, those are an alloy named Zamak, a Zinc & Aluminium alloy, I seperate those out. Metal toy cars are usually made of Zamak for example. And then there are the Lead ones that say Pb, those are very soft and can be indentified easily. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍👊

The second was labeled as "20g ST Zn", it means 20grams of pure zinc??? well, for exemple, the first of mine wheel weight, its producer wrote on it exactly "ZT Zk 20", what Zk means???, is it for Zamak, meaning zinc + aluminum???

@@abdellahgogop5653 I have had ones that say ZT or ZK on them, where I am from Zinc is spelled Zink so I'm pretty sure ZK is still pure Zinc. You could also go by size and weight, 20g of Zinc should be a smaller piece than 20g of ZA. It will take a bit of experimenting to figure out what is what. If it is important to you to have the purest Zinc possible then leave out anything you are not sure about. If you are just doing some simple casting for fun then it does not matter much if there is some other metals in it. Be safe and have fun. 👍

Mostly because it is fun, and to use the pure Zinc for casting projects or to make alloys. But if I ever want to sell a local scrap yard will buy them. 👍👊

@@ralphmourik thats fair enough 👍 I like playing with metals too lol its like no other project isnt it lol

That will work too, I'll give that a try next time, thanks for watching 👍👊

Should work fine for lost wax casting like any other metal, Zinc is nice and heavy, it fills up mold very well. Got a casting video coming soon where I try some different mold types using Zinc.

Zinc is a single element with the symbol Zn in group 12 and atomic number 30 on the periodic table. Brass is an alloy of Copper and Zinc about 80% / 20% maybe that is what you were thinking about, and it is actually not possible to separate alloys just by melting.

And the wheel weights were all free 😋👍

Good to know you learned something from my video, most of what I do I have learned from watching others too. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍👊

*Piqued* just sayin

yes Zinc is a nice and easy metal to work with, melts at 420°C and the wheel weights are easy to come by, usually for free 😋👍

@@ralphmourik ;) in time i get an better forge then ill kona do more brass and aluminium ;)

I have found that flux or borax doesn't do much when melting something this messy, remelting the dross to get out a bit of extra metal seems like the best option. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍

Very effective indeed 👍