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Rod · 10-28-2003, 09:21 PM

da-burb is right belives me it's hard to find a good drum after 31 years...here you have to have 1 ton duallies here inspected every year to keep them on the road or there considered not road worthy and they wont give you license plates or insurance ........so your sidelined till you find a good drum if it dosen't measure within tolerances. Its a big fear I have with my tow truck.. what happens when my drums dont pass.......well I have it figured out as we have some aircraft industry here and they as well as some machine shops have a metal spray ( flamespray) process that will layer a little thickness to the drum and then you can cut it to nominal size.

10-28-2003, 09:21 PM	#6
Rod Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Eastern - Manitoba Canada, Winnipeg Posts: 4,369	da-burb is right belives me it's hard to find a good drum after 31 years...here you have to have 1 ton duallies here inspected every year to keep them on the road or there considered not road worthy and they wont give you license plates or insurance ........so your sidelined till you find a good drum if it dosen't measure within tolerances. Its a big fear I have with my tow truck.. what happens when my drums dont pass.......well I have it figured out as we have some aircraft industry here and they as well as some machine shops have a metal spray ( flamespray) process that will layer a little thickness to the drum and then you can cut it to nominal size. __________________ Senior active founding member. 70 3/4 ton GMC Suburban 4x4 250/4 spd. 71 1/2 ton Suburban Chevy 4x4, 350/350 72 Chev 1 ton tow truck 402BB w/Holmes 440 wrecker on propane 2005 FLSTSCI Harley Springer 85 FXSB Harley Lowrider 72 Triumph 650 Bonneville 5spd "Poor people don't have hobbies" Quote from wife.