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Re: Wheels: Metal or Plastic?

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Machining it from solid seems time consuming; I wonder how long it would take to make some with outer "plates" and AL tube though. I think 1625 does something like that.
It's been a while since I checked with the guys fabricating them, but with a CNC running at decent speeds the runtime for our wheels is less than 10 minutes, for sure.