[SEL] My Ignorance - Forged Welded Wheels

[Glenn Karch]

Paul,

 Anything older than 1930 is likely to be hammer welded.  I have a lot of 
cart wheels with similar rim welds.Glenn Karch
Hercules Historian
Haubstadt, Indiana, USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Maples" <paulmaples at sbcglobal.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:37 PM
Subject: [SEL] My Ignorance - Forged Welded Wheels


Well gang the longer you stay in this hobby the more you learn...right?

I got a real good deal on a set of cast iron wheels, flat spoked, and they 
arrived today. I plan on using these on a cart I will build later for my 5 
HP Lister.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g36/wheelterrapin/wheels002.jpg

When the wheels arrived today I open the first box of four and was looking 
at the wheel and I saw a crack. I thought "Darn" the guy sold me a wheel 
with a cracked rim, oh well I will get it welded.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g36/wheelterrapin/WheelWeld.jpg

I then opened up the other three wheels and "Quadruple Darn", all of the 
wheels had cracked rims. I begin to look more closely at the cracks to see 
how bad they were and I noticed that the crack on the face of the rim did 
not line up with the crack on the inter-face of the rim. I then saw that the 
metal had been scarfed (Over-lapped) and it was then a light turned on in 
this hole riddled brain of mine....these wheels have been forged welded 
(Hammer Welded)

Anyone got any idea how old these flat spoked wheels are that had the rims 
forged welded together?

Just curious.

Paul

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