Talk:English wheel

Cleanup
The article needs some refining in prose, sectioning, and wikification (links). --Eyrian 20:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think many are using the term "amongst".--Mlprater (talk) 02:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

NASCAR
Are wheels really used in NASCAR construction? I'd assumed most motor racing at that sort of budget would be using composites, not light alloy? Andy Dingley (talk) 08:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Who knows (I don't) Tiger racing use them on the all aluminum bodied seven type. dhutch (talk) 20:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

The reference says so. 84.93.167.82 (talk) 18:29, 10 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved to English wheel. No evidence that it's a proper noun. Born2cycle (talk) 03:18, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Title
English Wheel → English wheel —

Is "wheel" supposed to be capitalized in the title? One source I found doesn't capitalize wheel: Wizard191 (talk) 21:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Seems reasonable. It's not just "a wheel from England", it's a composite that's then treated as a proper noun. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:14, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I realize this comes a long time after I originally asked the question, but between the ref I supplied above, and standard English rules, I'm led to believe that it's not a proper noun, and this article should be moved. Wizard191 (talk) 16:30, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Cast Iron "flexible"??
Despite the immense popularity of cast iron in England (where even bridges were made of it) one drawback is that cast iron is a flexible metal, and therefore, sometimes must be replaced by thick steel when a stiffer frame is needed. - This statement is wrong.

Cast iron as used in the first iron bridge at Ironbridge gorge opened in 1781 was generally used in compression and not tension, because it is very brittle. The Tay Bridge disaster was directly caused by the failure of cast iron due to brittleness under wind loading. (that and a train hitting it dhutch (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2010 (UTC))

85.119.112.146 (talk) 15:41, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


 * You are right that it is not flexible, however I'm sure what was meant is that it is not as stiff as steel. I've modified the text to reflect this. Wizard191 (talk) 17:52, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Cast iron IS stiff however, what it lacks is toughness! Cast iron also hasn't been commonly used in England either it was simply used when steel wasn't yet available/. As said, iron bridge was built in 1781, with most other iron bridges being around the time of our industrial revolution. dhutch (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2010 (UTC) Of coarse cast iron is stiffer and more stable than steel, hence precision machine tools still use cast iron —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.215.75 (talk) 21:36, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Doesn’t have to be “C” shaped
The article says, ”The machine is shaped like a large, closed letter "C".” This is a general, but not specific, feature of the wheeling machine. There is/ was a design of Ranalah wheeling-machine which does not use the “C” shape, so as to avoid the problem mentioned in the Limitations section, namely, “Fitting the work piece in the 'throat' depth of the machine”. The bottom wheel is mounted on a stand, and the top wheel on an independent adjustable beam; attached to an over-head support; this eliminates the throat. There is a video on YouTube which shows such a machine being rescued from a closed work-shop, and the speculation in that is that - while it had been being used in a bike- and cart-repair/ wheelright/ manufacturing business prior to being dismantled - it might have once been used in aircraft manufacture; although there would have been limitations based on its proximity to the legs of the support frame and a wall in the setting from which it was being removed, it could originally have stood in the middle of a large work floor, where it would have allowed large panels to be shaped without impediment. The video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-prcdrvb_E Jock123 (talk) 11:10, 12 March 2024 (UTC)