cking894
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I bought a pair of Center Line mags with Mickey Thompson tires at a recent swap meet for my rat rod truck. Unfortunately the Center Lines don't look right on it.
I had an old pair of Torque Thrust mags laying around that I used to have on my Chevelle. The mags are an off brand and one of them was a leaker so when I found a set of Americans for it I replaced them. We decided to cut the centers out of them to make a type of hubcap for the Center Lines. The centers will be bolted to the lug nuts when I've finished. The lug nuts have about three quarters of an inch of threads to bolt to so there's no problem attaching them with bolts.
Here is how we cut the mags down. This first two pictures show how we cut the mags down to size initially. We used a piece of plywood to mount our trusty Craftsman skill saw to. We cut a hole through it so the blade extended through the plywood. we then clamped the saw and plywood to a plywood box at the right height to cut through the mag. A carbide blade on the skill saw makes a nice clean cut.
Here is a picture after the outside of the rims has been cut off.
We put the wheels on an old trailer axle to grind them down but it was apparent that it was going to take forever to take the extra half inch off of them.
Norman came up with a plan to use the buffer to cut the wheels down. He sandwiched four carbide saw blades together to act as a grinder. We mounted the axle in a vice so that we could position it at the right height to the grinder. By having the wheel on a spindle we were able to move the wheel into the improvised grinder to slowly cut the wheels down. The grinder worked out great and it was definitely a lot faster and cleaner.
Keith
I had an old pair of Torque Thrust mags laying around that I used to have on my Chevelle. The mags are an off brand and one of them was a leaker so when I found a set of Americans for it I replaced them. We decided to cut the centers out of them to make a type of hubcap for the Center Lines. The centers will be bolted to the lug nuts when I've finished. The lug nuts have about three quarters of an inch of threads to bolt to so there's no problem attaching them with bolts.
Here is how we cut the mags down. This first two pictures show how we cut the mags down to size initially. We used a piece of plywood to mount our trusty Craftsman skill saw to. We cut a hole through it so the blade extended through the plywood. we then clamped the saw and plywood to a plywood box at the right height to cut through the mag. A carbide blade on the skill saw makes a nice clean cut.
Here is a picture after the outside of the rims has been cut off.
We put the wheels on an old trailer axle to grind them down but it was apparent that it was going to take forever to take the extra half inch off of them.
Norman came up with a plan to use the buffer to cut the wheels down. He sandwiched four carbide saw blades together to act as a grinder. We mounted the axle in a vice so that we could position it at the right height to the grinder. By having the wheel on a spindle we were able to move the wheel into the improvised grinder to slowly cut the wheels down. The grinder worked out great and it was definitely a lot faster and cleaner.
Keith
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