Reply to "Wheel Restoration"

A couple of the usual Pantera vendors (PPC-Carson City for one) have been restoring magnesium wheels for at least 10 years with few complaints. They have specialists that do the welding, others that professionally remachine the welds, and a third place that does heat-treating, then has them properly annealed as welding builds up local stresses that later can result in cracking. Welding mag is trickier than welding cast iron,and your average shop is not going to do it properly. I'm pretty good with a TIG, and after screwing around with a broken Campy for practice, I realized there's a LOT more to welding mag than there is with aluminum. When I crack a Campi, I take it to an expert.