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The Tip is 'Teach Grandchildren' One day, while I was on the Made In America Secrets site my granddaughter noticed and asked me what I was doing. I told her about the Big Secret and as I explained, she began to ask me more questions. After several minutes she left my office to play with her little sister. Months had gone by and until recently, I had forgotten about that moment. She was visiting again and I was talking to her about buying a custom printed T-Shirt. She immediately told me about a website that I could use to buy one. Wow I thought, she is only eight years old and already teaching me. The most amazing thing then happened, she said "Pops they sell Made In America T-Shirts". Thanks to her I purchased six custom Made In USA T-Shirts. Her name is Britton, she understands the Big Secret and I love it when she tells me her Little Secrets! Now she is ten and writing a screenplay called Mertastic. It is a story about a mermaid. Recently, she was visiting our house again and using my computer. She called me to come into my office and of course I came to her because that is what grandparents love to do. One of the reasons I love to be with her is because it is always interesting to see what she is up to. This time, she needed a mermaid tail for her movie, so we began to look around using Google. Her mother is a talented seamstress and will make the tail so we were looking for fabric that would be satisfy my granddaughter's vision of her mermaid tail. Once again we began to talk about Made in America and therefore started to investigate the country of origin of the fabrics she was considering. Because of that experience Made in USA fabric is now one of Made in America Secrets products. Thank you, Britton. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Rickson Wheel Manufacturing As owners of ? and one-ton pickups, we were frustrated with the rapid wear and poor handling of our 16 light truck (LT) tires. Plus, when we really loaded up our rigs, we felt that our safety was marginal? at best. As engineers and innovators, we knew there had to be a better answer. Using a commercial-grade tire made sense, but there was no wheel available to put them on our trucks and we didn't want to use adaptors. We figured that if we wanted better handling, improved tire wear, and a larger safety factor, with a direct bolt-on fit, that others must too. Frustrated at the lack of availability of such a wheel, we set out to produce 17.5 & 19.5 wheels in the correct bolt patterns and hub bores for our trucks, and now, for virtually any application that can benefit from an upgrade to commercial- duty wheels and tires. We are proud of that fact that we manufacture our wheels here in Hunt Valley, Maryland, U.S.A. Match Mounting & Balancing: History of The Rickson Process Early in the business, it became obvious that these commercial tires that were initially designed for heavier applications, and which we were now using on lighter (predominately ? and one-ton pick-up trucks in the beginning), have a propensity to cause vibration problems due to the higher out-of-round tolerances than those found on the LT tires that the vehicles were originally equipped with. We discovered a relatively new, yet complex piece of equipment on the market from Hunter Engineering Company that was designed to diagnose and fix out of round tire issues. Our management team's background in mechanical engineering, along with the newly purchased equipment allowed us to develop our unique match-mounting process., which allows us to achieve a ride quality equaling or exceeding that of a new-car with a tire never intended to give such a smooth ride. Today we have quietly become known in the industry as vibration specialists and we are called upon to match mount & balance wheels and tires for all possible applications. |
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