The wheels on one’s Mazda car rotate smoothly, quietly, and with minimal friction due to the fact that they are supported by precision-built ball or roller bearings. In general, the type of bearings used in a number of cars and trucks depends entirely on the specific wheel design, but all h...

Cars and trucks built before about 1935 came on wire spoke wheels with small metal caps installed to seal the wheel hub on the axle. Those early “HUBcaps” were smaller than 3″ in diameter, made of heavy gauge plated steel hammered onto the hub of the wheel. Their main function was to keep d...

Before you go out shopping for your wheel chair lift van, arm yourself with these tips. They’ll help you avoid the costly mistakes so many people make. Keep in mind when going to any dealership, usually, you’ll be pitched hard and fast on what they think you should buy. Avoid getting talked into ...

Roulette is an extremely simple game. A wheel with numbered pockets mounted inside the sunken dish, is spun. Then the croupier [Dealer] places a small white ball into a groove around the rim of the dish and spins it in the opposite direction to the spin of the wheel. Gravity eventually causes the ball to fal...

You hate reluctance, you hate stumbling and you hate hesitation while on move. Often it is a problem when you enter a building on a wheelchair. You are uncomfortable and it is just impossible for you to keep balance. As a solution to this problem, many buildings around the world have been providing wheel cha...