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The only problem with wooden ones is getting a piece of wood that will not split or check. The labor is not too bad, I make wooden objects on my metal lathe all the time. Metal lathes allow more precision than is normally encountered on wood lathes. All you need to do is grind your tool bits to...

What I am looking at is using a stamped steel stacking target (readily available, and cheap) and welding it to a turned flange that would fit the hub. I have some heavy wall (1") pipe that is the same OD as a deuce flange. I would cut it into 3/4" slices, face off on the lathe, drill on the...

My idea exactly.

Aluminum would be fine. So would some of the plastics. I have a set of 4 M151 lifting rings coming, I am thinking of making some flanges for the hubs and adding the lifting rings. Should look cool!

Let me see what I can come up with. I believe I can do better than wooden ones. They would not look exactly like the factory hubs, but if I can make them cheap enough, they would be fine.

Saturn has new ones for $28 each, probably the cheapest around. I saw some on E-bay, they were too high. Get a set and I will de-spline them for you on the lathe. Takes me 1/2 hr to do a pair.