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Date:         Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:57:17 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Can steel wheels be trued?
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My camper has its original set of steel wheels and it occurred to me
recently that the car would look a whole lot better if I stripped and
resprayed the wheels. Trouble is, none of them are perfect (as much
as .040 out in either horizontal or vertical dimension) and I would
like to get them trued. It seems to me that 30 years ago, there were
places you could take a wheel (they were steel back then as a given)
and get them trued up with simple machines that used big roller
bearings to do the job.


I called the one place in town listed as truing wheels, and they said
"if they're steel, we can't do nothin' about 'em."


Izzat so?


Jim
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