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Originally Posted by Jim2
Does anyone have an idea if Lindsey heat-treats the wheels after welding?
The problem being with welding which will anneal a broad area surrounding the weld.....
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But, you have to consider the (lower) stress distribution in that area.
FWIW, when I saw what Lindsey was doing / how they manufactured, I briefly had the same concern/thought. Of course now we do have empirical evidence here of the weakest areas. (not the welds)
My only Q at this point is to how much of the failure was driven by (over?) torquing of the lugs. --that is, did the cracks propagate from the center to the lugs, or form the lugs to the center? (there is a good amount of hoop-stress around those steel lugs)