Originally Posted by
Koyote
This might lead to something if you had a question, or at least a point, for your post. Otherwise, it seems like you’re lately just using the forum like some sort of blog in which you post links with no point.
The point is to discuss wheel building and the ongoing argument that, somehow, hand built wheels are better than automated build wheels... and, as mentioned in the article linked in the reply above yours, the fancier the wheel, the more important the machine's precision and repeatability becomes.
care to comment on that subject, instead of attempting to insult me for beginning a discussion?
machines do the same thing each time... and they do jobs people can't or won't want to do.
When working at Freightliner, i used a 5 spindle automatic torque machine to install semi tractor wheels... it did 5 lugs to near perfect torque at once... pull it back, re-attain 5 more nuts, pull trigger, Done.
what that machine couldn't do was start ten lug nuts onto the fine threads on the studs, or select either bud or standard nuts for each special ordered truck coming up the line...... or line up the rims to the studs as the truck inched past on the line... or jump up and insert the filler hose into the radiator... or bring out the special order tire/wheel combos from the tire shop.... etc.
a really smart guy once said: judge not lest ye be judged.
he had a lot of sound advice.
happy holly daze.