I spent Thursday and Friday melting and cleaning 5 gallons of WW into ingots. There were a lot of stick-on weights in the bucket, the glue is particularly offensive. I found a dozen or so funny-looking weights that wouldn't melt, and one normal-looking weight that wouldn't melt. I saved samples. Maybe it's me, but turning wheelweights into ingots seems to be getting more difficult, there's tire stems and cigar butts and trash in the bucket, and the threat of screwing the whole mess up with zinc. I must have had 25 pounds of clips and trash and dirt that I threw away, maybe more. I'm starting to wonder if buying alloy from the CA or AZ guys wouldn't make more sense. Or maybe it's just me.
joe b.