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After quite a bit of thought, I ended up using a pretty low-tech
solution that worked well for me. YMMV I picked up 4 small metal cake pans for 50 cents each - the ones with the removable bottoms and dumped the wheel weights in there. With both the front and back doors of the garage open to provide ventilation, I used my soldering torch pointing into the pan to melt the weights and picked out the clips with a pair of long pliers. The advantages of this was that it wasn't complicated and did not require handling molten lead. The amount of heat involved wasn't difficult to come by as I was really only melting the top layer. I was also able to tear off the pans fairly easily to end up with my finished weights (the pans were cheap). I suspended an eyebolt in the pan at the beginning with a nut and washer on it so I have a way to tie the weights down and transport them. It only took moments for the completed weights to solidify. The disadvantages were that it did take a fair amount of time to do and the resulting units still contain a fair number of clips and half-melted weights so they're kinda ugly and dirty. Each weight comes in at about 15lbs and I ended up with 4 which is pretty much exactly the weight I wanted. |
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