[CR]Re High flange Hubs

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme:2007)

From: <j.mccoin@comcast.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:12:46 +0000
Subject: [CR]Re High flange Hubs

All aluminum will oxidize if not protected, painted or anodized, as far as 1100 series aluminum in a ring not supporting its self, possibly a 50' diameter ring might not, depending on it's configuration. Every custom automobile body built in the 20"s 30's and 40's were built of 1100 series aluminum, pure aluminum. Dusenburgs, Lincolns, Packards and the rest.

In the 50's and 60's all early proto type or small production run auto bodys were of 1100 series aluminum and gas welded, . Napolian the third had a coffee service built of pure aluminum in the 1860's it was considered more valuable than gold at the time.

I know this is all off topic but there are a lot of myths about aluminum that need to be expelled.

Jim McCoin
Fremont Ca.