Buckled alloy wheel repair

Just for you guy that made the comment the rim does not have the same integrity before bent. Little education on aluminium. well everyone know why mag wheels got their name. Mag wheels were made from magnesium alloy. Today more known as alloy wheels. Aluminium alloys wheels today are made from 97% 601 aluminium, less than 1% magnesium/ titanium on higher price rims with a T6 hardness . That said, the guy heating the rim is ok .As long as the guys does not go over 400 degrees. When building custom wheels/ alloy rims they go through and extensive heat process that takes much longer that casting and machining the wheel.. The final process is powder coating witch takes the rim back up to 400 degrees to melt the coating. . This is where the rim straightening guy ( the one, few of you guys are hard on and say buy a new rim. )is doing the correct procedure. Now a welded crack can be weaker if not right alloy filler rode and 100% weld. it actually can be harder than the rest of rim. Making it less malleable. Steel rim? Yes replace it . My welding fee would cost you twice as much . Oh yeh, good video rim guy. thanks for you time t post it. like the machine.

You are overtempering (softening) the aluminum that results in a wheel that will not be as strong. It will not take impacts. It will bend more easily next time you hit something. This coming from a metallugist/welding professional.

You can still see it hopping at the end of the repair. What tolerance are you working to? I wouldn't pay £65 + vat for this.

Just had one of my rims fixed too from pot holes. But they told me they couldn’t fix the other one because the dent was next to the spokes and if they heat it up with fire and push it up then it’ll break right next to the spokes. They told me that they try fixing low profile rims with a lot spokes and it always breaks next to the spokes of the rims because something will give them it’ll break

Brilliant!! Loved it. Liked your patience.

i bent 2 Audi rims a bit worse than that one about 25 years ago, they were incredibly tough. I got them back in shape with a very big sledge hammer and some good hardwood to protect the wheels , they came back into shape and ran so well you could not tell they had been damaged and were fine for the several years I had the car.

Copper can be heated quenched and be come malleable stainless/ mild steel can suffer from carbide precipitation due to lack of gas shield This isn't being heated anywhere near the temp to compromise a mag alloy wheel. However I would like to see the results of a mag ,NDT or radiology test.

You have a lot of patience. Good job!

Heating temperature must be 150-200 degrees ,but preliminarily should be heating rims entirely before start local heat.

close enough is what you want. You want to round the rim from zero to .01 of an inch so when you slap a tire on you can counterbalance against a tires natural or delivered imperfections. AND NOW YOU KNOW:)

All that and can't even give the name of the machine that did all the work for you?? The second I saw the butane torch I knew you weren't experienced in this field... but still give some props and let someone know the machine that made this possible for you ..

No crack test pre or post repair ?? Probably a killer repair, as we say here in the UK, near enough is NOT good enough. If there is a crack , the tyre will deflate in moments, dangerous to say the least.

If it were the last wheel available maybe, otherwise buy a new one.

Are all those tools and machines your using made for alloy wheel repairs? if so where u buy?

The art and science its just an excuse for LACK of knowledge. As a forging expert, I would like to share some metallurgy facts with the uninformed. 1st) every manufacturer is probably using an exclusive of custom formulated alloy. Small addition of various elements call micro alloying give alloys different properties when cooled at various cooling rates. 2nd) when metals are forged, the grain structure of the resulting forging is altered leading to enhansed physical properties. Heating a forging will destroy the forged grain structure. 3rd) cold working metals deformed the crystalline structure of the metal and changes the physical properties locally. By understanding these principals, one can understand that straightening an alloy wheel, especially a forged alloy wheel will alter its physical properties. As a result, the wheel may be weaker and or more brittle and therefore be more susceptible to future failure.

where can i purchase the hydraulic bottle jacks individually or is it part of the machine?

I personally been repairing Wheels out of Tampa Florida and now Homosassa Florida 22 years and believe it or not a lot of Wheels that people think are unsafe or actually safe there are actually wheel professionals out there we are like a body shop for wheels so when you bring your wheels to a wheel repair shop that knows what they're doing they're going to give you an estimate on even if it's worth fixing

For normal real life car use driving within speed limits, this will be just fine with balancing after tyre is fitted. Nobody will be able to tell the difference. You're far more likely to have a tyre failure than a wheel failure. But I wouldn't go charging 150mph on the autobahn... How do you fix a wheel that's buckled at the hub as opposed to the rim? Is there a different machine?

11:02 Immagino uno che guida con quei cerchi a 130 km/h 💀

How much should I pay if I have a small bend in motorcycle wheel about half that size.