Welcome back. This week's wheel that I need to fix
isn't anything really new that you haven't watched me do before so I'm
going to go through the process of fixing this wheel and I'm going to speed
it up and you'll recognize a lot of the procedures and the processes of it
because you've seen me do it before. But what I'm going to do a little different
this week is when I'm done I'm going to go back through and talk about a few
things that stand out to me behind the scenes so to speak, behind the wheel. Some
things that I look for and take into account, not only for the customer but for
the sake of the wheel. So let's go through and get this fixed
then we'll come back and talk a little more in depth about what's behind the scenes.
So now we've got this wheel fixed I want to back up a little bit and kind of walk
you through some of the process of what I go through in my mind when I am
approached to fix a buggy, a wheel, a wagon, or stagecoach, whatever it is.
Well, this particular email came with a request, can I fix the wheel? Well this
wheel you can see has been in a state of disrepair for some time. You see the two
by four that's propped up between the tire and the wheel? Well this isn't a
wreck, this is a rot issue from being out in the weather for a lot of years.
Well, this is just being used as a backdrop for pictures, so right off the bat I'm
beginning to understand that this wheel does not belong to an antique old
original wagon, but this is a functional wagon at the most. And it is not
something that has happened overnight. This amount of decay has happened over
long period of time, so I'm also beginning to get the hunch
that this isn't a high investment project either.
It's a backdrop for pictures. Enough said. So I realized this week's video is a
So I realize this week's video is a little shorter than normal,
but it brought up some issues that I just
thought I would like to address, that not everything is ideal. We have wheels, like
this, that are functional. They really aren't all that fashionable, but they
serve the purpose, both for the wagon, and its intended purpose, and for the purpose
of the customer itself. So sometimes we have to kind of make do, kind of, so to speak.
We had a hub that was less than ideal.
It wasn't worth the money to change the hub. The boxing's don't fit, it's not worth
the money to make the boxing's fit. This is a static display. So I hope that was
worth the video of itself. I know sometimes you think, well I'd have done
things different, but in this case this is what really needed to be done.
Next week we have a wheel that that came in that also had some problems.
They went through a wreck, and it had some issues in the hub also.
A little different thing the shows
up that I also want to address and we'll get into that next week
So til then, thanks for watching
you