Thread: making your own weights?

Originally Posted by CarlF

Do not have any water anywhere nearby when melting/pouring. If water hits the molten lead, instanious steam explosion sending lead drops in a 360 arc.

Yes. A person needs to read up on the process.
But there should be no problem making fishing weights from the new, zinc wheel weights. I'm already finding them in the river. Someone around here is successfully doing it.