<VV> Re: Wire wheel hubcaps

[Gary Swiatowy]

Speaking as one who has cleaned wire hubcaps several times, there is no 
special trick to re-assembley. Several have given me fits trying to get the 
parts to line up, and have popped apart. I think some of the parts are just 
not made well or slightly bent. Generally it takes patience, and another 
beer........
Gary Swiatowy

> From: "Russ Moorhouse" <corvair65 at verizon.net>
> Subject: <VV> Wire wheel hubcaps
> I'm in the process of taking apart and polishing my wire hubcaps.  The 
> first
> went very smoothly, but the one I'm on now, just won't go back together.
> It's the first layer of wires and the hub that goes on top of them that is
> giving me fits.  These wires don't want to lay as flat as those on the 
> first
> hubcap did and then when you put the hub over it, some of the wires are
> mis-aligned with the slots in the hubs.
>
> On the first hubcap,  I noticed that the artificial adjuster at the ends 
> of
> the wires were loose on some of them and this seemed to make them a little
> more adjustable.  Should these things be loose so as to allow movement so
> the hub can fit over them easier?
>
> Russ Moorhouse