Tarantula rims, Magnesium?

[sfenton@amazon.com (Fenton, Shannon)]

Good god, you all cant be f-ing serious. There has never been a factory
production rim made out of magnesium. A friend of mine had to hire a guy
to come into his garage 3 times a week to keep all the magnesium rims on
the race cars from oxidizing and falling apart. He spends 1 hour per
car, and there are 12 cars in his collection, the guy makes 13 bucks an
hour. Magnesium sucks to polish. And no, you cant just clear coat a set
of Ford GT40 rims. Do you honestly think any car maker out there would
make production wheels out of this stuff?

Jesus, the list hits a all new low.=20

Shannon=20
www.scirocco16v.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Allyn [mailto:amalventano1@comcast.net]=20
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 8:23 AM
To: Larry; jester@westfailure.net; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?


bah, just hit the whole wheel with the torch :) :) :)

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
To: <jester@westfailure.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?


> Steve-
>   With a chisel, cut off a tiny piece of the wheel.
>  Apply acetylene torch to said tiny piece. =20
> If it melts, it's aluminum.
> If it burns quite spectacularly, it's magnesium.
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> Larry
>=20
> how do you tell the difference between the magnesium and aluminium
> > ones (assuming that there are both out there.)
> >=20
> > take care,
> >=20
> > Steve
> =20
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