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The lug centric design eliminates problems with differences in the center hole. Both seem to do the job reliably.
Billet is a buzz word which instantly gives the enthusiast a feeling that they have a stronger product because it is made of "billet" steel or aluminum.
Since my day job is basically manufacturing of after market "stuff" for tractor and truck pullers our place has been using the word "Billet" for years and the pullers eat it up but honestly it's a sales tactic because historically billet has way drifted from it's origin/ Like saying "That's cool" when the temperature of what you are describing could be in a range from -100F for dry ice to 1800F for molten aluminum.
Originally Billet was used to describe a certain size of a raw cast piece of steel or aluminum. Not a casting as a part casting in a mold but a raw square bar cast to a particular size. Look up "ingot, slab, bloom, billet" if this history lesson is the least bit interesting and you are a weirdo like me.
So before I bail from the thread I just wrecked LOL in recap modern english Billet means made from solid and not cast into the shape. Really billet is bar stock castings but made for manufacturing parts. So forgings could be called technically billet also. Most of the "billet" parts we make are actually extruded cold rolled or hot rolled rounds. Probably not "billet" at all by definition.
Last edited on Thu Nov 23rd, 2017 07:28 am by JAMMAN
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