[s-cars] Cracked OZ wheel

[Cody Forbes]

Aluminum is much harder to get heat treated properly and work hardens very quickly in this case. Far fewer people have the skills to do it right versus if we were talking about a steel alloy, and those that do have the skill charge accordingly making *good* aluminum repairs costly. There are plenty of people that know how to weld (and are likely good at it) but are ignorant of the consequences and don't even know that they don't know how to repair a cracked wheel right. By the time you had it repaired and heat treated you could have just bought another wheel in many cases.

-Cody
(Sent from my phone, if a word doesn't fit blame Siri)

On Apr 13, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Larry <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't you re-temper? All of my education was in steels so I don't know aluminum, but if it were steel, you'd re-temper the whole damn wheel and be GTG..
> 
> sent from my iPod
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 2:45 PM, cody at 5000tq.com wrote:
> 
>> Paging Scott J, here's somebody else for you to go off on!
>> 
>> 
>> On a serious note, welding wheels is not a very good idea. Yeah it can work, but it has serious flaws. The metal surrounding the fix will be very very hard and therefore very very brittle. Damned good chance it will crack again soon and when it does it will be a larger, wider crack that dumps all of the air out rapidly.
>> 
>> -Cody
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting Steve Mills <s.b.mills at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Take it someplace good and have them fix it- then you can put it back on
>>> the car. There's a shop down near BWI airport that I believe does airplane
>>> wheels on the side. They're goooooood and they can fix pretty much anything.
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Folks,
>>>> 
>>>> I have an OZ wheel with a through crack near the outer lip of the
>>>> wheel...about two inches long.
>>>> 
>>>> Clearly, this wheel isn't going back on my car.
>>>> 
>>>> So the question is...what cool things can I do with it? Coffee table and
>>>> hose reel have already been suggested...
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Lee
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