Ed Devries and Bud Dinger look over a shipment of wheels from
California.
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Pictured is Don Mayton receiving the donated,
restored Futurliner wheels from Steve Cordes. Del Carpenter looks
on.
Steve Cordes picked up all four of the
Futurliner wheel/tire assemblies. He had the tires dismounted at his
family business (truck tire business), then took the wheels to a
company in Kalamazoo, Michigan that sand blasts and paints using the
powder coat method.
We now have four beautiful wheels painted in their
final red color. Although this operation sounds rather simple in
order to prepare the wheels to go through their system Steve had to
tack weld the rings on the wheels so they could travel through their
automatic system. In addition, Steve brought back two mounted used
wheel/tire assemblies so we can put these on the Futurliner
temporary. We want to do this so as not to mar the new painted
wheels. This way we can mount new tires on newly painted wheels
later on. Thanks Steve for taking care of this.
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