

| Subject: | Re: Can steel wheels be trued? |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:12:04 EST |
In a message dated 2/27/07 6:00:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, felder@KNOLOGY.NET writes: > 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 > jim, save your $ and do it yourself.. just use a BFH. (Big F*cking Hammer) i've done it before with good results! chris ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
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