This is just for you, RodKnock....

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

For all I know, you photoshopped those pics.

And this is what a magnesium wheel would look like with the coating. No perfectly polished lips. Even Chas' mag wheels, when polished, didn't look as nice as your wheels.

You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:



The color is very similar to the color of Patrick's spokes (in my opinion).

The lips on a magnesium wheel can also be dow7 coated (like these are) or they can be bare magnesium (which gradually turns a darker and darker gray as it oxidizes, until it is almost black- Just like the wheels in the picture of CSX4323), or the lips can be polished bare magnesium, which has a shine similar to polished nickel (mag wheel on the right, aluminum wheel on the left:



the darker the shade of gray a set of real mag wheels are, the more neglected they have been; but another point that I agree with Patrick on, is that the blue-gray color of the center spokes of Trigo wheels looks nothing like ANY shade of gray that you would ever see on a genuine Magnesium Halibrand...

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:

...

The color is very similar to the color of Patrick's spokes (in my opinion).

In my life, I have blindly stumbled in to success far more often than having cleverly earned it.

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by patrickt

In my life, I have blindly stumbled in to success far more often than having cleverly earned it.

Whether you're a pro dart player or not, a bullseye is a bullseye....

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

Whether you're a pro dart player or not, a bullseye is a bullseye....

I almost purchased a set of real magnesium Cobra II wheels many years ago. I know what they look like brand new. And they don't look anything like the hot rod wheels you posted.

Oy vey. At least pick a Cobra wheel to refute my post.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I almost purchased a set of real magnesium Cobra II wheels many years ago.

I remember that. You know, if you had bought those wheels, the salt air would have eaten them away by now anyway.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I remember that. You know, if you had bought those wheels, the salt air would have eaten them away by now anyway.

That salt air in my dehumidified garage 30 mins from the beach?

I'm glad I passed on them. Per rodneym, they wouldn't have fit on my Kirkham anyway. Rodney bought the Vintage Wheels' replicas, and yes, they do look very much like the brand new real magnesium Halibrand Cobra II's, and I'm thinking of buying a set too.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

...and I'm thinking of buying a set too.

He who hesitates is lost. Pry that checkbook out of your murse and get a set.

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I almost purchased a set of real magnesium Cobra II wheels many years ago. I know what they look like brand new. And they don't look anything like the hot rod wheels you posted.

Oy vey. At least pick a Cobra wheel to refute my post.

Why?, because magnesium cobra-style wheels are somehow different than other magnesium wheels...? They don't oxidize the same way as other mag wheels do over time?

I suppose being on a Cobra makes them *magic*...

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

Why?, because magnesium cobra-style wheels are somehow different than other magnesium wheels...? They don't oxidize the same way as other mag wheels do over time?

I suppose being on a Cobra makes them *magic*...

You don't get IT. You gave me a hard time because I posted an alloy wheel, which has the near exact appearance of a brand new magnesium Halibrand Cobra II wheel. I was trying to show Patrick what a mag wheel would look like.

And then you post a magnesium hot rod wheel, which looks absolutely nothing like a brand new magnesium Cobra II wheel from Halibrand with the gold Dow7 finish. I know what magnesium wheels look like new and used since I was in the market for several years. We've had 10,000 threads on them here alone. And even Fran Kress came to CC to generate some business and reproduce them, but he could find only 2-3 takers (me, Rodney) here.

This is an X and Z conversation between me and Patrick. Y you in it.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by patrickt

In my life, I have blindly stumbled in to success far more often than having cleverly earned it.

Or the simpler version: "Better to be lucky than smart."

You were neither lucky nor smart when you picked beige for a Cobra color. Or a wheel color for that matter.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:

You're a genius!

So, you post a real Dow7 coated wheel that's not a real magnesium Halibrand Cobra II wheel? Doh!

Hoping I've inserted this picture of a brand new REAL MAGNESIUM COBRA II WHEEL properly. Looks like the image that quickly I grabbed of the alloy Vintage Wheels' Cobra wheel is VERY SIMILAR to a new magnesium Halibrand Cobra II wheel. Go figure.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

but another point that I agree with Patrick on, is that the blue-gray color of the center spokes of Trigo wheels looks nothing like ANY shade of gray that you would ever see on a genuine Magnesium Halibrand...

Originally Posted by patrickt

From a distance, and with pad dust on them, they will pass for magnesium. The original color finish for Trigos basically just sucks.

Actually that's not what Patrick said. He said the Trigo color sucks, nothing to do with their similarity to magnesium in terms of appearance.

Personally, I think the Trigo color is fine. And I think Patrick's color is "six of one half dozen of the other." As I said above, I might get a set of the Vintage Wheels' version since they're close to real Halibrands.