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Pull the wheel weights off the neighbor's car!

(09-10-2022, 05:21 PM)rleete Wrote: [ -> ]Pull the wheel weights off the neighbor's car!

Yeah, no sense in buying a 25 lb. bag of shot (especially at today's prices) when you only need a couple of ounces. A box of shells with #9 shot will do you just fine. Even better just talk a local bird hunter out of a couple of shells.

You actually could use a wheel weight or two instead. Just hold the steel clip with a pair of pliers and melt the ends of the weight with a standard propane torch over the slots and let the lead drip in as it melts. Make sure to use some OLD style (steel wheel) lead wheel weights. Newer weights have zinc in them and you don't want to be breathing the fumes from melting those.  I am assuming that the crank wheel is an aluminum casting? The lead won't stick to the aluminum and you could knock it out after it cools to trim off any excess weight. The only thing I would worry about though is possibly discoloring the wheel from the heat. Using the shot would be the safer way to go.

I like the lead shot idea since I can have better control over the weight.

Ed

I have lead shot. How much do you need?

(09-11-2022, 07:14 PM)rleete Wrote: [ -> ]I have lead shot.  How much do you need?

About 9oz. Preferably #8, 8.5 or 9.

Ed

(09-11-2022, 08:44 PM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2022, 07:14 PM)rleete Wrote: [ -> ]I have lead shot.  How much do you need?

About 9oz. Preferably #8, 8.5 or 9.

Ed

Oops, that's per handle so I'd need about 27oz.

Ed

(09-12-2022, 10:27 AM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2022, 08:44 PM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2022, 07:14 PM)rleete Wrote: [ -> ]I have lead shot.  How much do you need?

About 9oz. Preferably #8, 8.5 or 9.

Ed

Oops, that's per handle so I'd need about 27oz.  

Ed

Oh! I thought you only needed to do the one handle. It will take an entire box of 1-1/8 oz. shells to get close to 27 oz.

(09-12-2022, 11:01 AM)Highpower Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-12-2022, 10:27 AM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]Oops, that's per handle so I'd need about 27oz.  

Ed

Oh! I thought you only needed to do the one handle. It will take an entire box of 1-1/8 oz. shells to get close to 27 oz.  

All three handles are the same so they all have the same issue.  

Ed

(09-12-2022, 01:28 PM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]All three handles are the same so they all have the same issue.  

Ed

I just noticed the other problem. Any chance you could flip one of the X-axis hand wheels 180° from the other? Cut another keyway or whatever? It's certainly not helping with both handles timed facing the same way. (Both up or down at the same time.)