[TR] question on magnesium wheels

Andrew S. Mace zoboherald at aol.com
Sat Jul 9 13:56:28 MDT 2011


This all raises a question: are "magnesium" wheels pure magnesium or are they
an alloy (presumably with aluminum)? ISTR, meanwhile, that the crankcase of
the VW Beetle engine (and most of its derivatives) was magnesium....


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