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Having watched our machinist toil at making her hubs for the past week or so, let me just say, superlative! Very nice finish...

What stock did this start as?

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What diameter and width are they?

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Looks like either 6 or 8 inch 6061.

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This all started as 8x8 square stock (hard to believe, eh?)

We had it CNC'd at our sponsor's machine shop.

Each wheel is 6 inch diameter, with 1.5" wide tread. They turned out so perfect that when you ding them together, the spokes act as tuning forks, and the chime lasts for a couple minutes.

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I'm going to have to mar them a bit, the whole tuning fork effect is starting to give me a headache... :p

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How thick are the spokes? (thick meaning in the Z direction on the CNC machine on which they were milled)

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The spokes are .3" thick

The wheels started out of 6"x6"x1.5" thick Aluminum 6061 bar stock and the wheels are 6 inch diameter, with 1.25" wide tread.
This is a movie of the wheel being machined on the CNC (10MB Quicktime movie).
Here is a Block of material before machining
Here is the Wheel after the first operation

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wow i would be square being pushed around by those monster wheels.

FIRST should have a "Best Bling" Award for the best looking parts or something, those wheels are so awesome.

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those look awesome. what kind of tread is going on them?

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At what feed rate is that mill running? We run ours so much slower than that, but we also don't pour buckets of water onto our parts, so.

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They look very nice you did a good job, but how about weight?

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Bah we always say we're going to use this one type of wheels and end up with the 4 they give us...