Problem with reproduction steel wheels

I never paid attention to the fronts to be honest, to see if the lug nut area deflected while torquing the lug nuts. I never found any lug nuts loose retorquing them after driving the car. That’s why I question the material gauge. Behind the big block there’s a good bit going against them when I torque it up. My tire guy has been in the business for a long time told me to throw them in the scrap pile before something happened after I explained it to him. It may be just the wrong use of the wheel for my application. I don’t want to smear a company. There was a gentlemen I’d talked to years back that was taking old wheels and using the centers to weld into new barrels to make custom widths and off sets. If I remember correct he’d said he did that due to the repros being lighter gauge in the centers. I can’t remember his name but he was having trouble getting material that’s why I didn’t have him make them.