The heck with AI, here is my home phone where you can leave a message if you call - my ringers are cut off, so leave a message and I will call back!!!
four zero four 347 nine seven nine seven Much Thanks!!! Walt Wise
Found - NEW pics posted in ad, like an idiot, I had wrong pic 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
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Walt Wise
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Found - NEW pics posted in ad, like an idiot, I had wrong pic 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Looking for ONE wheel just like in the attached pics and in the subject title. I am not looking for a project wheel! I have that now with a bent wobbly rim, which I don't want to try to get straightened, if it could be, and wood rebuilt. If I can find what I really want, it is just like in the attached pics. PLEASE contact me through the site's online email or via PM which is fine too. I don't want an early wheel with the thinner more egg shaped spokes - I want a wheel from the later teens - here again, just like in the attached pics. If the wheel is NOT straight or has any known issues, I am not interested in it.
The heck with AI, here is my home phone where you can leave a message if you call - my ringers are cut off, so leave a message and I will call back!!!
four zero four 347 nine seven nine seven Much Thanks!!! Walt Wise
The heck with AI, here is my home phone where you can leave a message if you call - my ringers are cut off, so leave a message and I will call back!!!
four zero four 347 nine seven nine seven Much Thanks!!! Walt Wise
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Okay...maybe nothing close to me, so hopefully if someone has one in good condition that they are willing to ship???
The heck with AI, here is my home phone where you can leave a message if you call - my ringers are cut off, so leave a message and I will call back!!!
four zero four 347 nine seven nine seven
The heck with AI, here is my home phone where you can leave a message if you call - my ringers are cut off, so leave a message and I will call back!!!
four zero four 347 nine seven nine seven
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
STILL looking!!! Seems like activity on this Forum is down? I guess people are still "holidaying"?!!!
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
STILL looking!!!
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
I sure didn't think that getting one of these wheels I want was going to be so hard?!!!
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Mr Walt,
May be if you post a photo of the T that the wheel is needed, your re quest may be full filled. A picture tells a thousand words. ....n.
May be if you post a photo of the T that the wheel is needed, your re quest may be full filled. A picture tells a thousand words. ....n.
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Still looking...
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Still looking...
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Still looking...
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Like someone said before, this must be as rare as hen's teeth???
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Hi Walt,
This is Craig, Wayne just pointed out to me that you are looking for the latter round spoke, round felloe wheel. The one in the picture you
posted ( my wheel) is a oval spoke wheel.
Craig.
This is Craig, Wayne just pointed out to me that you are looking for the latter round spoke, round felloe wheel. The one in the picture you
posted ( my wheel) is a oval spoke wheel.
Craig.
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Craig,
I thought they looked like oval spokes and that is why I suggested a photo of the car involved.
Walt.
Email sent, ....n
I thought they looked like oval spokes and that is why I suggested a photo of the car involved.
Walt.
Email sent, ....n
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Re: WTB - 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Sorry...I had a pic posted that was NOT what I was looking for. I have now posted three partial pics of my good wheel and this is what I really need. I guess I have learned I can't see the differences myself in the pics - I am blind as a bat!!!
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Re: WTB - NEW pics posted in ad, like an idiot, I had wrong pic 30X3 non-demountable wheel with rounded felloe
Sadly, the wheel you are looking for is very hard to find. The rounded spokes were a progression from thinner ovals to thicker ovals, and didn't become round until about 1914. So the round spokes were used for a few years, and they were high production years relative to the earlier brass cars. But about 1918 I am told (although I believe it was a little later than that with some crossover time?), the square wooden fellow came along (cheaper and actually stronger). The later square wood felloe wheel's spokes are even a bit larger diameter than the 1915 through 1918 round felloe wheels.
The big problem with what you are looking for (and I know this from long personal experience!), is that for way too many years most people in this hobby have followed the lead of restore the best cars or parts you can get! Nearly all the best original wood wheels were destroyed to be re-wooded!
I have always favored original wood wheels when they were available (just silly me?). And for most of my life, money has been tight enough that I couldn't afford to re-wood my wheels. I have always been looking to buy good original wheels for a fair price, both demountable and non-demountable types. I have had (and still have) several brass era model T projects, a couple that still need more wheels.
I hear the stories all the time. People that just had a set of what you or I want re-wooded and how beautiful they came out. A little probing, in a few cases, I had even seen the wheels before, and it is clear that the wheels before were better than almost any of the several I have rebuilt myself at great effort. I have several times bought the wooden remains of wheels that people rebuilt and scrounged up all the metal parts to build up a nice solid wheel! But it would be so much easier if I could start out with better wood to begin with. And for every time I bought the wood from someone else's wheel? I have heard of several others where the wood was quickly disposed of!
I have learned how to rework the original wooden wheels. I have learned ways to shim and tighten them that will hold up for years of driving. And I love the wheels that I have reworked and painted.
There is an argument that any nearly hundred year old wood in a critical piece like a wheel should be replaced regardless. While there may be some merit in that, I do not entirely agree with it (however I have no desire to get into that at this time). I just wish people would re-wood wheels that need new wood, and pass along decent wheels that are well worth reworking to those that "want" or "need" them.
Most of my wheels have involved mixing and matching spokes and fellies to make a complete wheel. Properly done? That will work just fine. But it would be better to start with a complete decent wood wheel.
Good luck with your search, and I hope you find what you need soon.
(And if anybody wonders, I wasn't the one to talk with Craig L)
The big problem with what you are looking for (and I know this from long personal experience!), is that for way too many years most people in this hobby have followed the lead of restore the best cars or parts you can get! Nearly all the best original wood wheels were destroyed to be re-wooded!
I have always favored original wood wheels when they were available (just silly me?). And for most of my life, money has been tight enough that I couldn't afford to re-wood my wheels. I have always been looking to buy good original wheels for a fair price, both demountable and non-demountable types. I have had (and still have) several brass era model T projects, a couple that still need more wheels.
I hear the stories all the time. People that just had a set of what you or I want re-wooded and how beautiful they came out. A little probing, in a few cases, I had even seen the wheels before, and it is clear that the wheels before were better than almost any of the several I have rebuilt myself at great effort. I have several times bought the wooden remains of wheels that people rebuilt and scrounged up all the metal parts to build up a nice solid wheel! But it would be so much easier if I could start out with better wood to begin with. And for every time I bought the wood from someone else's wheel? I have heard of several others where the wood was quickly disposed of!
I have learned how to rework the original wooden wheels. I have learned ways to shim and tighten them that will hold up for years of driving. And I love the wheels that I have reworked and painted.
There is an argument that any nearly hundred year old wood in a critical piece like a wheel should be replaced regardless. While there may be some merit in that, I do not entirely agree with it (however I have no desire to get into that at this time). I just wish people would re-wood wheels that need new wood, and pass along decent wheels that are well worth reworking to those that "want" or "need" them.
Most of my wheels have involved mixing and matching spokes and fellies to make a complete wheel. Properly done? That will work just fine. But it would be better to start with a complete decent wood wheel.
Good luck with your search, and I hope you find what you need soon.
(And if anybody wonders, I wasn't the one to talk with Craig L)