Yeah, that's about what I would expect from the banjo wheel. The epoxy
wouldn't be sufficient to keep the loose spokes in place. Didn't know how
bad the wheel in question was broken -- just cracked or what. When my
colleague broke the wheel in her Midget, I didn't attempt a repair for
that reason. A smaller aftermarket wheel made ingress and egress more
comfortable in the Midget, anyway.
Chris Attias had this to say:
>At 2:05 AM -0700 2/1/00, Max wrote:
>>Someone sells steering wheel repair kits, presumably using colored epoxy.
>>Don't recall if I saw them in Eastwood or JC Whitney....
>
>I had a cracked wheel--broken at 2 of 3 spokes-- from a '68 BGT, and
>couldn't really get the epoxy to stick well enough. It is a very
>stressed, flexy piece, and there isn't a lot for the epoxy to bond
>to. The main problem was that the metal spokes had broken free from
>the metal core of the rim. I tried hogging it out with a Dremel, to
>give the epoxy something to key into, but that wasn't enough--it
>broke loose again. I finally ended up drilling a little hole through
>the wheel rim and cutting a channel around the circumference. I
>took a piece of safety wire and wrapped it around the end of the
>spoke, laced it through the hole, and hid it in the channel, then
>covered the whole thing up with black epoxy. The wire took the
>stress. Tried to contour it well, but ended up covering everything
>with a stitch-up leather wheel cover.
>
>Chris Attias
>'64 MGB
>'84 Alfa Romeo GTV-6
>
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