5 degree wheels?

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Lang

Rob,

Wish we had Canadian computers, I tried your secret codes in every possible way and finished up with SFA appearing.

PS. Just read your post again and it seems it is a Mac deal unavailable to us PC peasants.

Lang

Lang: Nope, it's a PC thing. Can't say about foreign keyboards. Try a google search for your country, Type in "how do i make the degree symbol on the computer" and hopefully the google for your country will give you the right answer. You have to hold the alt key down and while it is depressed type in the number, then release the key.
Or you can try the path that Grant indicates.

[Harry Moon]

Interesting reading about the RH 5º wheels. They are surely the original tires for the trailer but now I question using them?

[rob love]

Beyond their original safety concerns, add 70 years of wear and corrosion, and possible damage from occasional dis-assembly. Mine will become vehicle stands.

[Grant Bowker]

In discussion today, it was pointed out to me (and confirmed by experiment) that you have to use the numeric keypad at the right of the keyboard instead of the numbers on the top row of the keyboard for the "alt+4 digit" code to work. I usually do that without thinking for numeric strings but that could be what has stopped it working for others....

[rob love]

Originally Posted by rob love

Beyond their original safety concerns, add 70 years of wear and corrosion, and possible damage from occasional dis-assembly. Mine will become vehicle stands.

On reflection today,( and after going outside to see how many of these rims I really had), I think I would have to re-evaluate this earlier assessment.

If the rims are blasted clean, do not show any signs of damage, wear or corrosion, then why not re-use them, taking into account the safety requirements during filling. Many of them have lasted over half a century, and if they pass inspection now and are properly preserved, there is no reason they can't last another 100 years.

I found this style of rim on both my 1956 firetrucks, adding another 12 more of these rims to the total of 14 in the yard.

[Lang]

Grant and Rob,

Thanks for that.

I have had a computer since the old black and white days before anyone had heard of a mouse and I always wondered why there should be a second set of numbers on the right of the keyboard - I now know why, so you can put in ° ¢ £ !!!! Does this now make me computer literate?

Lang

[rob love]

Lang:
Not if you have to write them down to use them.

[John Mackie]

My first meeting with these rims was in the middle fifties. It took us two days to dismantle one even with a manual.
Even though they are easy to assemble i wont use them as i take pity on the bloke who will have to dismantle it later.
The scrappy will buy them.