Pete J. Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Jim - I hope you don't mind but I have a bit of a technical question. I am very much an amateur machinist and I have been futzing around with my Sherline lathe on some wheels for a WRC car. I noticed that on several of the sets you have a very clean dished out rim(concave transition between the vertical and horizontal piece). Did you cut a special tool to do that? I can's see any way to do that manually with a boring bar. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroNitro Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 Jim - I hope you don't mind but I have a bit of a technical question. I am very much an amateur machinist and I have been futzing around with my Sherline lathe on some wheels for a WRC car. I noticed that on several of the sets you have a very clean dished out rim(concave transition between the vertical and horizontal piece). Did you cut a special tool to do that? I can's see any way to do that manually with a boring bar. Thanks. With the CNC lath I can make a curve by giving direction of rotation, x and z start, and x and z end point and the radius to use to make an inside curve. Before CNC I had ground the radius on cutting tools but the finish will need some sanding to look good. What wheels are you making? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemi Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Can you make wheels for street cars as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v8horsepowercj Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Jim your wheels look amazing, awesome machine work your doing and I will deff. be placing some orders with you soon. I have a 1/16th scale Fuel Altered that I will be needing a current set of wheels for. I do have a question for you though what type of Lathe and Mill do you use in producing these? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Pugh Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Wow! Those wheels are fantastic!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
808 Nitro Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Looks like good as gold! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroNitro Posted March 4, 2011 Author Share Posted March 4, 2011 Thanks again for all the nice words about the wheels. As for the machines we use a lath and mill started life as Sherlines we have modified them heavily and converted them to CNC. My son builds all the drivers, computers and software. The CNC router was all built by My son and I as will as the rapid prototype machine. I get must of the hard parts to make the machines from MSC and my son gets a lot of the electrical stuff from Mouser. we also have a lot of non CNC tools in the shop. Sorry for the long answer to the question. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruz Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 I put your site on my favorites in the computer, will have to order some wheels in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooneyzs Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Love the Wheels, I am getting ready to order a set of your 1/16 scale funny car rims later today. I am curious as to what the Welds in 1/16 scale will look like. Can't wait to see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Photos Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Jim I got my wheels and WOW they are great. I got the 1/16th scale 10 spoke dragster wheels everyone Jim did a killer job on these. So give him your custom orders and I am sure he can do them. Thanks Jim for the great service quality product. Mike Garland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedster Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Sweet wheels. Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooneyzs Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Hey Jim aka MicroNitro, I wanted to thank you for the beautiful 1/16 scale funny car rims. I got them in the mail today and they are gorgeous. they will be going on a project I just started this past week. Will be starting a thread soon. Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasser59 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Those wheels are gorgeous!! I've had your site saved and will have to get a set or two from you in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baddgass Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Hay bro. any pics. of my rims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitbash1 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 You've got some fantasic looking wheels on there. I'm very interested in the Indy 500 & CART models that your working on. When do you think that that part of the site will be up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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