[AT] Bending a wheel? [OT]

[Indiana Robinson]

On 17 May 2005 at 20:34, Louis R Godena wrote:

> I know that popular lore decrees that once a wheel is bent, it cannot be 
> straightened, but is that really true.   I have a spoked wheel on a hay rake 
> that is badly bent (I did it driving too close to an apple tree).   Has 
> anyone ever seen one straightened successfully?   And who does that sort of 
> thing (fix it, I mean)?
> 
> Any info, even anecdotal, would be great:-)
> 
> Louis G 



	When I was about 18 I rolled a big wagon load of corn by going to sleep and letting two 
wheels drop off of the edge of the pavement. They were not common wheels (back then) so 
we took them to some body shop folks we got acquainted with a year earlier (long story, 
high speeds, unfriendly utility pole and end post, removed part of windshield with head 
etc.) and they sent the two wheels to a company they used that all they did was 
straighten wheels for body shops. I think it was just a couple of bucks (remember I am 63 
now).  :-)   BTW, I am still running those wheels.
	A steel spoked wheel from a hay rake would be a piece of cake for any blacksmith worth 
their salt. I have done stuff like that for neighbors now and then over the years and I 
don't call myself a blacksmith. 


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"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
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years 
before the revolution.


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Central Indiana USA
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