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Subject:Can steel wheels be trued?
From:Jim Felder
Date:Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:57:17 -0600

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