Sorry boy's and girls but Billy the not so dumb Red Neck is at it again. He's finished his shock treatments but he's off his meds and we hate it when that happens, he knows the voices aren't real but sometimes they come up with some ideas that just might work. He's constantly thinking of how to do the most with the least for the guy on a budget. Today it's how to lighten up his wheels. This morning during breakfast he was eating his mustard and biscuits with french fried btaters and he went all Billy Bob Thornton Karl Childers from Slingblade on us. He's kind of a mix between Billy Bob and Doc from Back To The Future. We never know what slot the Roulette ball will fall in on any given day. We think his problems started when he discovered a Roadrunner can only run 20 mph BUT a Coyote can run 43 mph and his Saturday mornings were based on a lie. Then he thought since the ACME catalog sold everything else surely they had a food section. Wiley could have simply ordered what ever he wanted to eat had it packed on dry ice, Fed Ex'ed right to the cliff by 10 am. Billy may be a little crazy but he ain't stupid. He knows certain organizations don't allow specialty wheels or the substantial removal of mass or reducing the wheel width from the original kit wheels. He also knows that some rules only allow the removal of mold imperfections. So if your wheels are out of round that's an imperfection and most errbody puts the wheel on a mandrel in a drill or drill press and sand until the high spots are gone. And without the removal of substantial mass some take sandpaper or an Exacto Knife and slightly remove some of the wheels inside diameter. Sandpaper's a pain, an Exacto knife leaves chatter marks, can take out chunks and can actually warp or cause the wheel to become unbalanced. We've had to put a filter on it to keep him from looking at dirty pictures and videos but he loves to surf the inter web looking for ways to make his car faster. He found what he was looking for and a way to use them. He found these little double ended sanding sticks that come in different grits and have a round or a flat slightly blunt tipped oval. He liked the flat oval ones. In an instant he figured out how to Jenny Craig his wheels. Mount a wheel on his mandrel with the back side of the wheel exposed. Going low and slow and using water to prevent over heating and possible warpage he's going to use the oval shaped ends and lightly sand some of the ID away without removing substantial mass. Every little bit helps. Good thing we hid the ACME Catalog or he'd have a big red magnet on his car, but that would make it more than 5 oz's then we'd have to put him in our family Coat of Arm's. You know, the one that ties with your arms in the back. Just Amazon "Sanding Sticks" and look for the black plastic double ended ones that look like a Kayak paddle. Believe I'll have me some of the Big un's.
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