23-01-09, 02:05 AM
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Originally Posted by peter dowdle
kevin as i mentioned i made my own wheel nuts and spacers
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Peter, that's an interesting way to do it, using existing nuts - I hadn't thought of that. One downside for myself and no doubt some others, would be the fact that we would also have to buy a lathe! Which probably means it would be cheaper to buy the SS nuts from Bristol.
Personally I took a slightly different route - I took the nuts and collars I had bought secondhand from Bristol, cleaned them up, had them nickel plated and polished. The polished nickel plate is a slightly different colour to chrome but it's much tougher, so it's less likely to crack and chip like chrome always seems to do eventually. I'm happy with the results - see (rather poor) picture attached.
If the price was reasonable however, I would go for polished stainless steel.
Regards,
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