<VV> Theoretical recommendations : "mag wheels"

[Charles Lee]

Isn't that where the term "mag wheel" originated ?

Magnesium + aluminum for strong light wheels ?

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Fregeau" <n5hsr at sprynet.com>
To: "'Bryan Blackwell'" <bryan at skiblack.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Theoretical recommendations.


> All magnesium?  Isn't that a bit dangerous?  I remember in high school our
> physics teacher got a ribbon of magnesium and made us wear goggles while 
> he
> lit it and boy did it ever burn. . . .  I know the filament in the old 
> flash
> bulbs was mostly magnesium and 'flash powder' was also mostly magnesium.
> (Yes I had a camera at one time that took flash bulbs.  M2 and M2B if I
> remember correctly.  And a camera that took flashcubes.  Hey, I took my
> driver's test on that 700 coupe and drove it for a year before the test 
> and
> several months afterward before Dad sold it.  I've got a bit of a soft 
> spot
> in my heart for old Tadpole.)
>
> I know in later years, if someone wanted to build something light like 
> that,
> they would often use an alloy of aluminum and magnesium, the reason being
> aluminum gets soft at high temps if not alloyed and magnesium is flammable
> alone.
>
> I was also told that some of the parts changes were not made on the 
> boundary
> between model years.
>
> I was also told by an experienced Corvair owner I know that we shouldn't
> have had to replace the belts as often as we did, that the mechanic we had
> in those days was overtightening the belts a bit.  (We always carried a
> spare belt, just because.)
>
> I was at the orphan car picnic Saturday and saw some interesting 
> 'upgrades'.
> A lot of EM's had been upgraded to alternators, for instance.  I saw a
> couple that were using the LM single air filter.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Blackwell [mailto:bryan at skiblack.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:45 PM
> To: Charles Fregeau
> Cc: Virtual Vairs
> Subject: Re: <VV> Theoretical recommendations.
>
> Well, that isn't that far off - the early fans were steel, not iron.  Iron
> would have been *really* heavy.  The '64-up fans were magnesium, never
> aluminum.
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Charles Fregeau wrote:
>
>> I was told the fan was iron through mid 62, then went with a lighter
> Al/Mag
>> by another Corvair owner.
>
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