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To: "Peter J. Thomas" <pjthomas01@snet.net>
Subject: damaged alloys
From: Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 11:17:51 +1000 (EST)
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Peter,

At 08:53 30/04/98 -0400, you wrote:

>As far as I know the alloys will bend a little.  The problem is they cannot be
>bent back into shape.  The compressed area of the bend does not expand back.

Not necessarily. I once let an American girl drive my car (her 1st time on
the wrong side of the road), and she hit the curb, wrecking both LHS tires
and bending the alloys. Both wheels were repaired ($50 each), and have
1,000's of miles on them, since. 

Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney  2052  Australia


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