Car Construction 5

October 6: I've been building the wheel mounts. I've been puzzling about what to do all week. I went over to Home Depot to look around. I was considering (1) using a pipe flange, and (2) using a thick cardboard tube or sleeve. After talking to a great plumbing sales person there I got four 1"x6" pipes (he called them nipples) and four 1" flanges. When I got home I inserted a pipe/flange combo into each wheel. Then slide the pipe over the oak dowel and I've drilled hole in the non-flange end to bolt to the oak axle. I'll tell you more tomorrow once I've attached them to the axles.