C8 progress in Texas

[David DeWeese]

Hi,
Had one open day this week to make that spare wheel. Cut out the centers of both wheels and headed over to a friend's house to use his lathe.
Things got slow when I found out the edge of the center rim piece I was working with was now hardened from cutting it out with a torch. Add to that the saw-tooth profile of the piece from the torch work, and it made for agonizingly slow progress to keep from breaking tips off the cutting tools..

Things got even slower when the automatic feed on the lathe broke, so the rest of the machining was fed by hand for two hours.

Anyway, made it home in time to dress the outer rim, true everything, weld it, prime it and put on a coat of paint before the sun went down.

Thanks, David