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Old 11-04-2020, 01:17 PM
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Those wheels, if I am not mistaken, are cast Magnesium. The modern wheels are cast Aluminum. The two materials are extremely different in metalurgical qualities and cast very differently. Aluminum makes a much finer casting than does Magesium.
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