Re: "As The Lug Nut Turns"

[Jim Steck <4SFED@domain.elided>]

        Fred,

        I hate to say this, but I doubt that even 5% of the "Digesti"s
        know what you're talking about when you separate the meaning
        of RIMS & WHEELS . . . you did mention it was "some" years
        ago when you were a boy!  ;-)    As one of the last rim
        manufacturers, I deal with the terminology all the time.  If you
        didn't already know . . . I make rims for motor vehicles that
        were produced before 1935 . . . I stop where the drop-center
        rim started.  So it's been over 60 years since a rim was a
        rim was a rim.  Most of the time, my first conversation with a
        new customer starts with a clarification of terminology . . . rim,
        wheel, detachable, demountable, fello band, lugs, etc.  It's
        always nice to find someone that already knows the
        language . . . such as yourself . . . and appreciates it's
        correct usage.

        Regards,
        Jim Steck

Biba, and all Digesti, I remember very clearly as a young boy some 80 years
ago and up until recent years, WHEELS had RIMS.  I have not seen a rim in
ages so am I incorrect saying no motor vehicles, cars as we know them today
do not wear RIMS?   A wheel is a wheel and NOTHING else!  Let's call parts
by their right names.  And while I'm at it, To, too, two, then, than,
route,
rout, on and on poor spelling and usage of words is confusing, to say the
least.  A teacher once told us of a great train wreck caused by a written
word, in the days when trains got written messages handed to the engineer
by
a long pole as they roared by  depots.  The message was, "clear on track to
Albany."   Track TWO was clear, not the one he was on.  The head on crash
resulted.  You get the point even though the actual words were not exactly
remembered by me.  Fred  Flames?
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