Rims Help!
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I actually found another set that has the pattern I'm looking for. Thanks. But I'll snag these ones to becuse I do have the all the resources and machinery to do it when I'm not working on aircraft. Thank you.
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all it takes is a sign plate and a mill.
pretty easy in the eyes of a machinist.
but youll be making your own lugnuts also.
a machinist makes approximately 150/hr.
so thats an hour to set up the mill
and roughly an hour for each rim.
then swap over to the lathe for the lugnuts to make 32 lugnuts?
forget all that, ill buy the correct ones.
pretty easy in the eyes of a machinist.
but youll be making your own lugnuts also.
a machinist makes approximately 150/hr.
so thats an hour to set up the mill
and roughly an hour for each rim.
then swap over to the lathe for the lugnuts to make 32 lugnuts?
forget all that, ill buy the correct ones.
As for drilling out new holes, seems like I could do it just fine without the sine(sign?) plate... Just draw out x/y cordinates for all 8 new holes, dial in the center hole, and drill each. Clamping the wheel to the table with a couple of studs through a couple of the existing holes would be the easiest thing to do.
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sine, yes sine...(insert excuse here) a rotary sine plate at that.
i would want to bore out the entire hole and not use the counter sink method.
my point was, IMO.. ill just buy correct rims.
as far as machining methods, theres many ways to cook a cat..
or was that skin a cat?
i would want to bore out the entire hole and not use the counter sink method.
my point was, IMO.. ill just buy correct rims.
as far as machining methods, theres many ways to cook a cat..
or was that skin a cat?
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Where's the fun in that? Why spend $50 on good rims when you can spend $500 hacking $5 rims? :P
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