I was walking around the other day and found this old Keystone. Kinda wild how they were made. The casting was pressed into a steel hoop. Pretty neat!
The centers were cast with steel inserts in the ends of the spokes. The inserts were then welded to the hoops. Still weird that this was more cost effective to just making an all aluminum wheels.
Those were just too weird for me. It would make a great garden hose reel tho after a good bead blast and paint.
I once found a Ford 9inch housing miles away from any road out in the woods.It had been there a very long time.No idea how it would have gotten out there.
Below my house is a creek that meanders through the valley. When it floods, all kinds of debris flows downstream and catches in my woods. So far I've found three good alloy wheels with good tires in the past 18 months. Unfortunately, no two match. If I get one more to match, I'll put together a trailer of some sorts. Until then, just storing wheels with tires - up above the flood line.
The ET's that used to be on Clarence were combination aluminum and steel made the same way. I've never seen Keystones in that pattern. Or at least if I have they didn't have the center cap on them so they looked just like all the other 5-spoke wheels.
i have a pair of american racing made that way. 15 x 7 small chevy bolt pattern. thinking of making into hose reels. clean it up and recycle into something usable.
As a side, I ran a set of those Remington XT 120s on my moe-sheen once. 70s on front, 60s on back. Don't judge me...it was the early 70s....
Ive got way too many cool lookin single hose reel wheels that Ive bought for cheap,gotten on a project,or found etc...
anyone ever grind one down to see what the steel looks like? it might be some kind of cool looking wheel
Junkman73 the nine inch was probably in an open field at one time and the forest probably grew up around it!
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