08-16-2011, 09:29 AM
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:This is exactly what i was thinking. I would not be surprised if they are plated at all, but then aren't most wheels like that? Still, I might think about getting new wheel sets. I'll have to take a picture of the problem spots on the wheel.
J-B wheel sets are solid nickel silver. NWSL wheels sets used to be Nickel plating on brass back in the 1980's. I haven't used them since the 1980's, but I have heard reports from people using them now that NWSL changed over to solid cast nickel silver instead of plating brass. I don't know what Athearn is now using for wheels, but if the plating has come off resulting in wheels that look like brass, I would replace them with either J-B's or NWSL.