restoring manhole cover wheels
03-09-2016, 01:55 PM
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Here's a pic of a flat forged wheel, after etching to remove the anodising. You can clearly see the webs you could machine out, without losing strength, to convert them to club sport appearance. There would be a lot of setting up to repetition machine the webs out, which would be necessary to get accuracy of position and repeatable shape.
(after the wheels are etched like that, and before the re-anodizing).
You would only need to program one cut once, then use that repeatedly.
Labor to re-index the wheel seven times to move each of the slots into place.
Then of course, 21 more times to complete the other three wheels...
I've always loved the look of the Club Sport wheels.
03-10-2016, 11:41 PM
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refinishing manhole covers
My original 83 forged dishes are numbered 92836102105, and on the back face are absolutely plain, no sign of the markings shown on the pic above. Bugger, I would love to have an easy way to cut the spare set into CS pattern! Spare set cost me all of $100 a few years ago.
jp 83 Euro S AT 56k
jp 83 Euro S AT 56k
03-11-2016, 10:34 AM
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My original 83 forged dishes are numbered 92836102105, and on the back face are absolutely plain, no sign of the markings shown on the pic above. Bugger, I would love to have an easy way to cut the spare set into CS pattern! Spare set cost me all of $100 a few years ago.
jp 83 Euro S AT 56k
jp 83 Euro S AT 56k
First 3 photos are the my OE wheels, followed by 4 of the NOS wheel.