So I decided to make a wall clock.
a long ways to go still, but will look good in my future garage:

still need to buy a clock mechanism from the hobby shop.
and use a center cap for it...

plus a ton of grinding and a shot of fresh paint are needed:

Mind if I ask why you didn't just cut the wheel in half, keeping the front lip
of the rim surrounding the piece you cut out?

thats what i did on my mahle clock, and phantom914 is doing on my fuch clock

don't mind the question at all.
basically didn't due that due to rim condition.
car must have slid into a curb because the outer lip was trashed in more than one place.
heavily bent.....

so decided to use the center only, which still looked decent.

brant

eh so what! thats what gives em character and thus wall clock fodder

my mahle had a bent/cracked lip.

my fuch has 2 stress cracks all the way thru 2 paddles

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eh so what! thats what gives em character and thus wall clock fodder

my mahle had a bent/cracked lip.

my fuch has 2 stress cracks all the way thru 2 paddles
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guess I'm too anal Aaron.
I would have wanted to straighten the lip, sand out the scratches and repolished..
so its easier to fight the urge by just cutting it off and throwing some fresh paint at it

brant

Where are you guys getting the guts for the clock? I have a set of 933 Turbo Rotors that I wanted to turn into clocks.

-Britain

Nice idea Brant! Now I regret trashing my cracked widened Fuchs...

brittain,

go to local craft store, you need the one with the LONGEST "shank" to stick out of a wheel. about 10 bucks.

Excellent Brant.
Are you gonna make more of these as awards for the RRC?

the thought crossed my mind...
but too much work.
we really need to help out whom ever is in charge of trophys this year.
Joe must have put a LOT of hours into it last year!

brant