Hairpin alloys - advice needed - Page 4

Bastelmann · 13th June 2020, 03:18

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Originally Posted by stocktake

Easy way out

The last option if nothing else works.

Bastelmann · 13th June 2020, 03:39

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Originally Posted by Spike

My apologies. DTC000150XXX is right and I was wrong.

Yor are exceptionally forgiven graciously. As an atonement and for reasons of the creation of prospectice clarity you should start writing an encyclopedic essay concerning the many MG-Rover-wheelcentrecaps, their diametres, materials, colours, logos, part numbers, their development over the decades and their sociocultural impacts in UK and allover the world.

Seanalf · 13th June 2020, 07:32

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Originally Posted by Bastelmann

Yor are exceptionally forgiven graciously. As an atonement and for reasons of the creation of prospectice clarity you should start writing an encyclopedic essay concerning the many MG-Rover-wheelcentrecaps, their diametres, materials, colours, logos, part numbers, their development over the decades and their sociocultural impacts in UK and allover the world.

That's still probably easier than finding the correct centre caps....

Arctic · 20th June 2020, 23:06

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Originally Posted by stocktake

I did this once. I found a hole cutter that you attach to a drill that was a good fit inside the fixing clips and taped it together and used a nice rough file and ran the edge of the centre on the file with the drill, then covered the file in a finer wet and dry. Took a while but it did work sort of

Hi Dave.
I took a walk down your path today, and tried shaving some off the 60mm centres seems to work, i would imagine there is a better and smoother way but success to a fashion.

Ran the drill at the same time a a fine grinding wheel.

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Fits into the star spokes

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Will try another couple tomorrow so i have a set of four, will report back.