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

[@UrbanMiningWithGearHead]

The Damnedest thing! I had no idea that zinc weights were being melted. I was only searching easiest way how to clean the adhesive off of the flat metal weights, and I found your vid! Checked evilbay and sure as $hit the ingots are selling! Add them to my aluminum, lead and copper pours. I had planned on just selling my zinc as they were, but my interest is peaked now. Thanx again, and ill be smashing that like button! Happy Crafting!

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍👊

[@dominicdelprincipe2583]

*Piqued* just sayin

[@GoFishOffice]

I really enjoyed watching this nicely done video. Almost felt like I was there in person during the melting process of making ingots. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your upcoming videos (or lives :) ). Take care.

[@MissBELLE003]

Go Fish Office I know you

[@GoFishOffice]

@@MissBELLE003 Always so nice to see you

[@geterdonegranny1639]

I really enjoyed this video Ralph! You kept my full attention. 😁 The time lapse of the mold setting up was really awesome! Now this is something I wouldn’t mind learning to do!

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍

[@frikkiesmit327]

Love your idea using the sifts to catch the slag!

[@ralphmourik]

Very effective indeed 👍

[@ewastemike7700]

Alright now. Your gonna have me doing all kinds of stuff. Awesome job on that fail. Thumbs up buddy.

[@ralphmourik]

hey everyone needs a hobby :D

[@ForgottenWinter]

Nice, this is an interestingly cool hobby, if it is, in fact, a hobby! Thanks for sharing.

[@davidcarlisle3384]

Very interesting video 👍 pouring and stacking. I usually remove the clips from my Lead Wheel Weights with a hammer and a Cold Chisel. I watched the whole video 👍 I hit the like button 👍👌

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍👍👍

[@WhatAngelWears]

AMAZING ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND SIR.

[@AlexGomie]

Awesome content like always my friend. This was very fun to watch.

[@denzilthedestroyer5243]

New subscriber here for you Ralph. These videos are right up my street. Was thinking of getting myself one so have been watching these type of videos for a while. Great work.

[@familyadventureusa5279]

wow, this is awesome thanks for sharing my friend.

[@RoeMantic]

Beautiful bars of zinc! Stack them up! Looks great!

[@JCTXFF]

Great tutorial.

[@peterlyl.joseph9994]

Nice to meet you as a new friend

[@Thewulf56]

Nice Zinc Ingots, I just melted a bunch last weekend. It is a beautiful metal.

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍

[@Thewulf56]

@@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.

[@ralphmourik]

It's OVER 9000!!!!!!!

[@ChatterontheWire]

Congrats on the 1k of subscribers and good to see someone else using a charcoal forge, though I just finally moved to gas, but have enjoyed the charcoal one of the last 2-3 years! I used a nice cast iron 2 quart dutch oven for a long time as a crucible, worked well until I got over zealous on melting down slag, over heating and burning a hole through it! Nice set of new ingots there!

[@MissCanadian]

This is very interesting and quite a few bars

[@ralphmourik]

And the wheel weights were all free 😋👍

[@ChristyMoffett]

Very cool Ralph

[@Dav3Campb3ll]

Just letting the channel play while I work. So I end up on videos from years ago. Never seen a bucket of zinc yet. And I've seen alot of scrap videos. I actually collected a bit when I took an old steal roof off this summer The roofing magnet left behind the lead washer ends on the old nails. Ending up having to pick them up. So.i kept them 😆

[@mijit.859]

I can hear 👂 little baby kids in the background ! LoL 😂

[@MissBELLE003]

Hello 👋 great video thanks for sharing this video are you going to tell us how much you make going to scrap yard?

[@ralphmourik]

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.

[@americanrebel413]

Cool man! 👍✌

[@s-s-p704]

Hello Ralph. 👍. Have you ever put a very "low salt" in the hot melted mix to reduce the amount of slag ... Very enjoyable Ralph..👍👍

[@ralphmourik]

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.

[@JohnnySwedishScrapper]

sweet ingots ;)

[@ralphmourik]

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 😋👍

[@JohnnySwedishScrapper]

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

[@JimmyCandFriends]

I was wondering when that shelf was going to give up😀✌

[@roystheboy]

you should use a angle cutter for the extinguisher, Did you have to pay for the wheel weights

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍

[@jackpotdigger834]

Awesome job I even learned that wheel weight arent lead ...been selling those as lead for years

[@ralphmourik]

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.

[@abdellahgogop5653]

Are the Z labeled weights 100% pure of zinc???

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍👊

[@abdellahgogop5653]

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???

[@ralphmourik]

@@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. 👍

[@frikkiesmit327]

Is wheel waits not usually from lead?

[@ralphmourik]

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 😋👍

[@RafalScrapper]

nice bud 👍👍👍😀👍👍👍

[@SBSATS]

Try using a strong magnet placed inside of an aluminum container. Wave the container over the melted metal then remove the magnet droppings the steel in your waste bucket. Done easier if the magnet is attached to something that can pull it out of it's container

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍👊

[@franktedder1236]

Glad to see you back at it my friend. Have you thought about a waste oil burning forge? I came across one today and it seemed like a good idea for a forge/foundry kind of thing. Idk about the laws surrounding it near you, but maybe you could ask the shop you got the weights from if they have any waste oil, and it actually burns surprisingly clean, without leaving a ploom of black smoke. Just a thought, have a good one!

[@ralphmourik]

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

[@lennynash8221]

What are the screens for? Catching slag?

[@ralphmourik]

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

[@aliahm5450]

جميل جدا يا صديقي

[@stuartbrown9307]

Have you tried any flux to possibly clean up the left over scrap?

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍

[@keytefirerefining1355]

I heard sometimes theres small amounts of silver in there too

[@scrappydoo7887]

Its absolutely tiny. About 30 grams per tonne

[@sahmadi1000]

What do you do with those zinc ingots?

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍

[@dragonpug1452]

do you know if theres any risk of lead contamination? i thought about melting some wheel weights myself but am really paranoid about that sorta stuff

[@ralphmourik]

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 👍👊

[@dragonpug1452]

@@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

[@ralphmourik]

@@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.

[@dragonpug1452]

@@ralphmourik thank you so much

[@ralphmourik]

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

[@jackpotdigger834]

Just curious maybe wierd question but ... Zinc isnt a mix of copper and nickel?? So if you melt it arent you separating the copper from the nickel since they dont have same melting point?? Isnt it all the copper that stayed in your frying thingy ?? And you actualy have some nickel ingot?? As mention im far from beeing a use to melting stuff im just a scrappor with basic knowledege

[@ralphmourik]

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.

[@scrappydoo7887]

Why do you do this? Is it as an investment or do you have a good spot for selling it?

[@ralphmourik]

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. 👍👊

[@scrappydoo7887]

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

[@muriaticacid7004]

Duimpjes Omhoog

[@user-mo5hz9kp6y]

That slag. What about mixing it with charcoal and heating it in a covered V shaped crucible. On a reactivity table you'll see Carbon is more reactive than Zinc. The carbon should steal the oxygen atoms from the zinc oxide and become CO2 or Carbon Monoxide, leaving zinc. Afterwards the Zinc metal runs down to the bottom of the crucible.

[@ralphmourik]

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

[@HuntingandStuffwithJandJ]

That sure is alot

[@frikkiesmit327]

Ok thats zinc that yellowish stains on the slag been tapped out .

[@MaineiacVariety]

You still need a new shelf..lol

[@ALABOTTLES]

I use a magnet

[@ralphmourik]

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

[@kingsmith9986]

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