This DIY Mechanic Created A Split Rim Centre Piece Using Hand-Held Tools

Starting with a large aluminium-alloy block, this YouTuber uses nothing but hand-held tools to fashion a three-piece split rim centre hub, with amazing results

Matt Kimberley

Updated: 01 Jan 2018

With skill and application, hand-held tools can be all you need to create your own masterpieces of metalwork for your project car. This video is all the proof you need of that, and is giving us some new year’s resolution motivation to try a bit harder.

Using nothing more than a mitre saw, hand-held router and power drill, YouTuber eajslater has created the centre hub of a three-piece split rim out of a single block of aluminium alloy. As it happens, he was Car Throttle’s very first videographer back in the day, but his talents clearly don’t stop there.

Comments

That must have been tire-ing.

Nice pun! U P Y O U G O

But the result was wheely good

Ayy this is the first official staff post in 2018

Hate to say it ‘coz of all the effort that went into making it…

But those are some hideous rims

Diwhy

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So he made a wheel?

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MattKimberley

All that effort to make something truly one of a kind. Who wants to tell him that he’s gotta make 3 more? Can I tell him?

Thanks for watching! In the vid I am not trying to present an actual alternative to centre piece manufacturing processes. You’re right it is a lot of effort. We all love cars and I wanted to show how woodworking tools can be applied to solid metal and can manipulate that material to enough engineering accuracy to allow it to be fitted and function - in this case as a centre piece for a wheel.