I appreciate it guys.
I can honestly say I have fun with repairing wheels with misfortunes.

 

Chris doesn't fuck around with bad work. He just dresses weird...

 

What's up with that scary seam where it looks like the repair weld has zero penetration?

 

pretty sure it's either the cuts from the lathe you're looking at or where I stopped taking off paint, and it's making you think that...

 

How much do you charge to fix a set of wheels? I got a set where 2 of them are rashed up badly from hitting a curb hard.

 

I have not expanded to a booth for painting wheels yet, so after repairing that rash, the wheel would need to be painted and cleared.
Hopefully it wont be too long before I begin refinishing wheels.

For now it's doing work like I've pictured, crack repair, straightening and truing wheels

As far as inquiries go, please PM me. This thread is not meant to be a service provided ad

 

I have a question here.

Since there is a chunk missing from the bead lip, isn't that technically not repairable? I mean you hit a pot hole hard enough or something else, etc, it's just going break off again?

 

no, not necessarily.

tire was still holding pressure even with the broken lip (full 35psi)

it's just metal
when the wheel is welded properly it can, many times, be stronger than before in the area of repair

 

PM sent.

 

Depends on the alloy that the wheel is made from, the alloy of the repair material, and the manufacturing process of the original wheel. If it's a forged wheel, then you're never going to have the same strength because the repair material isn't forged and you're also annealing and resetting the grain structure in the area around the weld. So all of the nice compacted and oriented grain structure is lost in that area. If it's a forged wheel with a spun or flow-formed rim (and therefore you're not actually repairing the forged section), it's probably about the same strength assuming the proper alloys are used, properly prepared, gas purged with proper post-weld duration, etc.

If it's a cast wheel, the repair area may be stronger than the original wheel, depending on the alloy and if the weld can properly fuse with the cast alloy. If that doesn't happen, the repair section might break off at the weld or somewhere into the casting, especially if there is residual stress from the welding (which can be huge).