Fabricated Design Failures

Previous attempts to protect the wheel surface from debris contamination and damage prior to being painted have failed due to any number of factors.

Assembled wood construction tends to break easily with time. Breakage exposes fasteners such as nails potentially resulting in worker injury. Wood absorbs water and possibly other liquids adding weight to the spacer. Wood sheds debris and dust jeopardizing successful finishing of product.

Assembled metal construction also tends to break easily with time. It’s not as forgiving as wood in terms of contact with the wheel surface. It’s more expensive and in most cases does not protect wheel contact with other wheels. Non-galvanized metal will also oxidize adding particulate matter to the wheel surface prior to being painted.

Assembled thermoformed spacers have also been attempted. They are heavy, prone to fractures and will collect water and other fluids due to closed space design to the point of being so heavy that they cannot be manually moved.

All previous attempts ultimately fail under pressure of weight when stacking three loaded skids high which can result in considerable wheel damage and potential harm to factory personnel.

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