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dikko · May 21, 2011, 03:48 PM

I live in South Africa, but I assume wheelweights are the same everywhere. Yours clip on to the wheel rims like ours, don't they ?

I'm a commercial caster, and have measured everything. Several years ago I weighed about a ton of wheelweights before melting. I got, as near as dammit, 75 pounds of alloy from 100 pounds of wheelweights. It was not a single melt (obviously), it was melted in several batches, and the interesting thing was the consistency. Never varied outside two or three pounds over or under 75 per 100.

May 21, 2011, 03:48 PM	#8
dikko Member Join Date: May 20, 2011 Posts: 22	I live in South Africa, but I assume wheelweights are the same everywhere. Yours clip on to the wheel rims like ours, don't they ? I'm a commercial caster, and have measured everything. Several years ago I weighed about a ton of wheelweights before melting. I got, as near as dammit, 75 pounds of alloy from 100 pounds of wheelweights. It was not a single melt (obviously), it was melted in several batches, and the interesting thing was the consistency. Never varied outside two or three pounds over or under 75 per 100.