The original post, as I recall, was warning about heating lug nuts to remove them and the video showed welding briefly on a rim which is somewhat different. In the lugnut case, the solution is simple, just let all the air out of the tire first. If wheel is off and welding on the wheel is needed, then the obvious precaution is to remove the tire. A small amount of welding on the rim could be done with the air out of the tire and then cooling with water before putting air back in, but it's much better to remove the tire.
A local tire man complained about a different heat problem. His employees would keep running a inch square air drive trying to remove a truck lug nut until the socket heated up and cracked. Usually air tools will either get a stubborn lug nut off or break the stud. A separate problem occurs when the lug turns part of the way out and then the stud spins in the hub. I tried to help a young couple with that problem on the interstate once. The stud had backed out and was hitting part of the brake assembly. No room to get a vise grip in to grab the end of the stud, so I took some wire and wrapped it between the lug nut and the wheel, pulling the stud away from where it was hitting. They went down the road so they could get somebody at a garage to deal with the problem. I asked a tire man what they did in that situation and he said they used a zip gun? which is a small air chisel to cut the stud off hopefully behind the hub, but otherwise between the wheel an the lugnut, explaining to the customer that they would damage the wheel probably. I have that problem on a small trailer and fortunately the splines on a new stud were sharp enough to catch in the hole enough to tighten the lugnut, and yes, I did oil the threads before running the nut up.
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