Are wheel weights useless?

[Black Hand]

had a bar of solder and melted it into 440 diam balls used them in a shooting match useing TC HAWKINS in 45 cal--worked just fine in my paper target shoots--no noticable differance than lead balls--summer shoots every other SUNDAY --shot the complete summer and came in 2nd place out of over 40 shooters

Good chance it was lead if it came in a bar - was once used on black Iron plumbing pipes to seal joints after packing with Oakum.

 

[coloradoclyde]

50/50 bar solder probably.....lead and tin...

 

[Rifleman1776]

Zamac (pot metal, white metal) was the usual alloy for model trains. A base metal of zinc and alloying elements of aluminium, magnesium, and copper.

Thanks, interesting info. I did some googling on that metal. It is called Zamac and is, as you said, mostly zinc. Percentage varies from 80% to 99%. I'll still call my light balls zinc to keep things simple. Haven't shot in nearly a year due to health issues but I'm confident those .600" "light" balls will put holes in paper when I start again. BTW but ff those WW11 train kits still do not have any collector value so I did no harm by melting them down.