OT: How much does an average 15" alloy wheel weigh?

#11

"Adrian" <toomany2cvs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

MrCheerful (nbkm57 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

Typically, 8 to 10 Kg.
(If you're as sad as me, you can occasionally buy hideous ones off
eBay for 99p a set then weigh them in for 60p per kilo.)

You mean sell them for scrap? LOL

absolutely. always save and sell aluminium, even ali drinks cans and
chinky containers and kitchen foil soon add up to some useful money.

I lobbed an ally-blocked engine (2.0 straight 4, block with crank and
pistons, no head or flywheel) into the wheelybin a few years ago...

They hooked it onto the bin wagon, lift, lift, lift, lift... and the
entire
bin tipped in the truck. Oops.

that was a waste of a fiver or two

#12

MrCheerful (nbkm57 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

Quote:

Typically, 8 to 10 Kg.
(If you're as sad as me, you can occasionally buy hideous ones off
eBay for 99p a set then weigh them in for 60p per kilo.)

You mean sell them for scrap? LOL

absolutely. always save and sell aluminium, even ali drinks cans and
chinky containers and kitchen foil soon add up to some useful money.

I lobbed an ally-blocked engine (2.0 straight 4, block with crank and
pistons, no head or flywheel) into the wheelybin a few years ago...

They hooked it onto the bin wagon, lift, lift, lift, lift... and the
entire bin tipped in the truck. Oops.

that was a waste of a fiver or two

<shrug> I know. I just could not be arsed trekking it round. Life is too
short.

#13

Adrian wrote:

Quote:

I lobbed an ally-blocked engine (2.0 straight 4, block with crank and
pistons, no head or flywheel) into the wheelybin a few years ago...

They hooked it onto the bin wagon, lift, lift, lift, lift... and the entire
bin tipped in the truck. Oops.

I've a friend who's in charge of bin collections around here, he says
that happens two or three times every day.
The composting ones are the most fun, because if they're not fished out
of the lorry, they get shredded. Then someone has the delicate job of
seperating them from the compost.

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OT: How much does an average 15" alloy wheel weigh?

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