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Post by project510 on Jul 26, 2024 10:28:26 GMT -5
Nice work Brandon! This is going to be very cool when complete.
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Post by tcoat on Jul 26, 2024 11:48:07 GMT -5
Brandonk, Great find for sure. just to prove how old I am, back in the days when these wheels were the go to racing wheel, I thought that they were called Minilite wheels. Now most likely I'm wrong as I do get a lot of thing wrong these days. joel I was at a car meet with a bunch of youngsters a while back and inadvertently regressed to using the term "mags" when talking about wheels. They didn't have a single clue what I was talking about. ![](https://kustomrama.com/w/images/thumb/1/14/Mag-wheels-by-america-racing-equipment.jpg/400px-Mag-wheels-by-america-racing-equipment.jpg)
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Post by brandonk on Jul 26, 2024 13:19:55 GMT -5
Ya, "mags" was the term back in the day. I believe it came from the fact that the early light weight wheels were made from magnesium, and later they went to aluminum, but the Mag term remained. Cool fact, magnesium wheels catch fire and burn real good and hot. I wonder why they stopped using them.
Apparently, this was urban legend and alloy wheels with magnesium in them won't burn and are safe to use in aircraft. Curious how that legend began.
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Post by kyledehart5 on Jul 26, 2024 19:15:15 GMT -5
If I had to guess…and this is totally a guess. But I’d say the legend came from the 1955 Le Mans disaster. When the magnesium Mercedes continued to burn for hours. Didn’t help that the poor ignorant firefighting team tried to put water on it to put it out. I have a friendly acquaintance with a gentleman who does a lot of work restoring vintage Indycars and I’ve talked to him about repairing vintage magnesium wheels. He says it welds just like aluminum, no problem. But, at least early wheels, certainly contain enough magnesium to be combustible. But it has an incredibly high flash point so you don’t have to be too careful with a huge chunk like a wheel. The issue is the shavings from cleaning the crack or your weld and having to lay in more filler rod. Those little shavings combust very easily so you have to make sure to completely clean up every time you have to be sure you’ve gotten all of that cleaned up. Interesting conversation.
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Post by joelw on Jul 27, 2024 7:11:37 GMT -5
So the Aluminum Alloy wheels on both of my cars are called just Alloy and or Aluminum wheels rather then just the basic metal stamped wheels? It's really depressing to find out once again that I'm so far out of touch with current reality.
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Post by brandonk on Jul 27, 2024 7:18:56 GMT -5
I think the names we assign things largely depends on the circles you run with and the area where you live. Jargon is relative...
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Post by joelw on Jul 27, 2024 7:32:21 GMT -5
Brandonk,
Most likely you right. I did give Google a shot right now and the short answer is that Alloy Wheel if they're Aluminum or Mag Wheel if they contain Magnesium.
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Post by brandonk on Jul 27, 2024 15:05:07 GMT -5
Making good progress on the headlamp buckets. I still need to scratch up some lights, but most of the work is done. I also noticed the real car has a chin spoiler so I whipped one up real quick. I'll probably set this aside for a few days and hit some other builds.
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Post by joelw on Jul 27, 2024 15:10:56 GMT -5
The spoiler really came out looking darn good. Definitely adds a lot to the front end look.
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Post by kyledehart5 on Jul 28, 2024 4:23:57 GMT -5
Buckets are looking good and the chin spoiler is excellent.
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