[DeTomaso] Original Magnesium Wheel Failures?
Roland Jaeckel
pantera874 at t-online.de
Wed Mar 7 15:08:00 EST 2012
Military aircraft change every part on a plane after a definated operating
hours of use. Not only rims.
All the aftermarket self welded campy clones are safe or unsafe as original
rims.
Roland
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From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:31 PM
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Original Magnesium Wheel Failures?
> FWIW, before the Pantera community began annealing Campy wheels, I had one
> open up on the way home from 'Vegas. The crack was halfway between the
> outer
> and inner rim-edges. Very hard to take a hit there.... Welding was
> unsuccessful as the crack unzipped faster than the welder could add metal.
> The drive
> home on a space saver ruined the LSD clutches in the ZF due to the
> diameter
> mismatch. IMHO annealing is cheap insurance regardless of whether the
> F-community has heard of it for their Cromodoras or not. And as mentioned
> before,
> military aircraft throw magnesium wheels away after a specified number of
> operating hours of use, due to cracking danger. Good luck- J Deryke
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