Narrowing Wheel backs to fit different front or rear axles?

[426-Hemi]

Guys,
I just thought I'd make a posting on this to see how others do this or have done this and I'll be the first to start!

-Upon building my '57 Chrysler 300C, I used Foose rims and tires on it (all I had) and the better one of the two Foose used on the current 2 Mopar cars he done that Revell offers. BUT I used factory AMT-Ertl '57 Chrysler 300 front suspension, and that made the fit, a bit tight TOO TIGHT, I had to "narrow" something to get the tires and rims on the car, and look right! I thinned the width as much as I could on the suspension spindles, and shortened the axle pins the wheel backs were to press onto, BUT it still wasn't enough..... SO I got to lookin' at the wheel backs to the Foose rims. THEY have a LOT of meat on the backs of those! I mean A LOT!!! (I can not stress this enough for such a task!)

I took it upon myself to do the best measuring I could to get an accurate reading on just how thick this area was..... I got it to be around .087" of an inch, and there may be more on some! This was just on my model BEFORE the wheel back would have broke free, I removed something to the tune of .065" of an inch off the wheel back itself!! -and the "center" hub was still pretty strong and stiff, as I would remove .010" of an inch ata time to make sure I wasn't thick in some places and thin in others so I kept tabs on it while I was doing it.

So then, how did I do it? Have a look:



Also, meet my Unimat milling center.....

So how the rest of you go about this?

[High octane]

John, I don't think that many of us builders have Unimats.

[426-Hemi]

-Yeah, thats why I was asking how the rest do it..... I was just posting how I do it....