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Train wheels that have changeable rims are becoming quite rare.
To install heat a rim, careful to not heat so hot you get red hot or hot enough to damage the metal.
The wheel should be prepared and your new rim will fit against a edge called a flange to locate it.
The axle and wheel are stood up so the rim can be dropped onto the wheel and allowed to cool and shrink onto the wheel.
Leonora Pfannerstill
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∙ 12y agoThey are heated to a high temperature causing them to expand, and then fitted over the wheel rims.
As they cool they contract in size and as a result are a very tight fit onto the wheel rim.
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoI have seen many trains wheels and it appears to me as if the entire thing was a single casting. Not like a wheel with a rim in other words.
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How metal wheels are fitted to trains wheels?
Train wheels that have changeable rims are becoming quite rare. To install heat a rim, careful to not heat so hot you get red hot or hot enough to damage the metal. The wheel should be prepared and your new rim will fit against a edge called a flange to locate it. The axle and wheel are stood up so the rim can be dropped onto the wheel and allowed to cool and shrink onto the wheel.
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