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Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON
Chief said folks with wooden wheels would take every opportunity to drive into/across a creek, in the HOT summertime.
Bill Splinter
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Soaking your wood wheels to tighten them is really a last ditch effort to get that last bit of use out of your wheels. After the wheels have been wet and then have then dried out, they are now looser fitting than they were before there were watered down. It is something like having a leaking inner tube with no spare tire, and having to rush from air hose to air hose to get home. In the days of the covered wagons crossing the plains, the creek crossing was an often opportunity to tighten up the loose wood wagon wheels, and to water both your horses and oxen. Nowadays, soaking your dried out and loose bare wood wheels in a mixture of linseed oil and kerosene, will often tighten the wheels up for another season of summer driving. I just rebuilt these rear wheels on our 50 HP 1910 KisselKar.