Haven't explored too much. At this point, it's only the one wheel and as of today, everything is back together and nice and tight. If I can get it to last at least a few years like the last time, I'll be happy. Hopefully road testing tomorrow.  Of course, if you know of anybody who has some wire wheels and drums or whatever I need to go with it, I'd be interested. I'll post once I do a road test. 🙂

Ted

Not yet.  I plan on checking it out this weekend.  I'll be sure to report back!

Awesome to hear!

I've considered respoking as a last resort mainly because of a wait time. Plus, then I would have to get the wheel repainted and striped hoping it would match the others. The good thing at this point is that this is the only wheel that has been giving me a problem.  If this fix doesn't work and I believe it will for a while, I would have to consider that. But, wire wheels would be my choice if I could find them as you said.

Doing some repair work on my left rear wood wheel, the culprit that needs attention every few years.  I had "repaired" these 6-7(?) years ago by using a method in an issue of Skinned Knuckles that was helpful at the time.  This involved using 1/2" copper tubing (from Home Depot) as a sleeve to take up some slack between the spoke and the fellow.  Then, a 1" washer would be screwed down in place to cover the top of the spoke.  This was an easy fix that lasted for a while.  When I had the wheels re-done (painted and pinstriped about three years ago), the painter removed the washers and left the copper in place.  I guess the paint had helped hold everything together since then.

Fast forward to last weekend, when after a drive I could hear the spokes (turns out about half of them) making clicking sounds indicating another repair would need to be made.  I took the wheel off the other night to inspect and tried a slightly different repair.  The copper is still in place, but I drove two brad nails into each spoke between the copper and the metal fellow.  This tightened everything up nicely, however, I wasn't done yet.  From there, I used a product by Wonderloc (Tite Chairs) which works on wood, metal, etc.  This was put in around the spokes between the copper and metal and surrounding the brads...hopefully a little more insurance.  Then, I used another product on top of the exposed spoke wood (no washers anymore) called Swel-Lock used for swelling wood/tightening up wood joints.  This soaked in the wood nicely and into the holes from the previous screws.  Everything looks and feels to be nice and tight, but only a drive and time will tell.  To find a set of wire wheels might be on my list in the future!

Ted


   

Yes, looking good!

I like it!  Really coming along 

Ted

Yes nice!

Very nice Chet!

Hi Chet and all, doing well down here in Florida. Haven't had the car out in a few weeks, but plan on getting it out this weekend for some exercise. Your car is really coming along well!

Wow nice!

Just wanted to check in and see how everyone was doing.  The weather here has been good and I've been fortunate enough to be able to work from home.  I've been hanging out in the garage in between and taking the old gal out on occasion to do a little social distancing and to get out of the house!

Stay healthy...

Ted

That's my roadster at 2:25-2:29 at a Palatka, FL car show!

On the home stretch!

 Nice!