Covid protection of my fire pit business

Corrosion is another issue with the alloy wheels. Bead area (air retention) corrodes badly on some rims, the seal is good with the old tires but when you break those old tires and off and match a new shiny bead up against a pitted, flaking mess you can expect a leaker. Sure, steel rims can rust and do the same thing but usually that is from a bad environment (farm/industrial) and a *long* tire life application...not to mention air compressors that don't get drained often enough. The alloys can corrode by the first tire change. Another issue is galvanic corrosion where the alloy wheel corrodes itself to the hub and requires <shudder) beating from the backside of the wheel to get them to come off....and some are *very* glued on!!! So yeah, steel is king (in my eyes).

The draw to these wheels, other than the "look", is that a guy can take a 1984 Chevy S-10, plop some "quinties" (that's "twenties" for us English-speaking folks)and suddenly that little truck drives like a wannabe sports car....it rides like a steel-wheeled set of dollies but it drives like a Ferrari (yeah, right).  The S-10 just doesn't have the suspension designed for those tires.  Back when we were wholesaling, dealers would tell us that they would have customers come in on vehicles like beater Lincoln Town Cars with a $300 paint job on them, be sitting on a milk-crate (seriously) for a seat and put a set of $3000 wheels and tires on it. Now get this...they paid in fives, tens, and a few twenties.

Yeah, there's some crapola out there...tires and wheels, both.  Something else to be aware of are crappy lug nuts, or should I say "clad" lug nuts.  These nuts have a metal covering over them that gets beat up by wrong sized sockets being used on them and from just general wear.  What happens is the covering will loosen on the actual nut and suddenly you have the cover jammed up in your socket...then it's a hammer and punch to get it off and of course an uglified wheel nut.  Not so bad if you're at a shop where you have a hammer and punch, BUT...if it's 10pm on a foggy night in the middle of nowhere and it happens to you with your little OE lug wrench...you're screwed...hope you have cellphone reception 'cause you're NOT getting that little metal cover out of that wrench.  My question is, why the heck do the auto makers put these crappy lug nuts on a $25k+ vehicle???  I often recommend folks to change them out for solid nuts...some people do, some people don't.

Intheswamp, saw a 'wheel rental' in Douglasville GA yesterday. What next ?

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Not a bad call. Then you will build a boom and turn your lift into a small crane... Just saying

Cuz I know a dude like you out here and that is what he did!

Will gladly take any orders their friends may request. Actually make less money per hour on custom jobs.
These are new designs and am trying to get them out on the market Tela. Maybe raise price later.
Fun to build.

Those things are pressed cold, they never crack. Great target for the 8 pound sledge, full wack and never crack.

They have sat in a truck 10 high and wedged beyond measure in transit. Sledge hammers have been used in their separation.

They also go into resonation mode when grinding, takes a long time for them to stop. Loud to grind, ear muffs best.

Just don't shoot at the edge of them when they are facing you; they return bullets readily and accurately.

Gets boring at the farm. Might as well liven things up from time to time.

Brought in a load of 8-10-12 inch sch 20 steel pipes on my friend's log truck years ago. Scrap iron. Some had cast iron plugs pressed in the ends.
Learned that torching the end of the pipe off was the only way to remove them, which was a job.

Cast iron resilient to a torch, but brittle. Thought maybe the 30.06 would crack them. Not.
Shot one from 50 feet away hiding behind a tree. Copper jacket goes about 1 inch into it and ricochets straight back out and caught my Levi's just inside my calf.
Pulled my legs out from under me and face planted me. Calf muscle swelled up like a balloon. Good thing it did not hit my leg. No more cast iron targets.

Okay James, I gotta ask. What's the story on that awesome catfish? I need something like that for my house, ha ha.