[AT] Bending a wheel? [OT]

Louis R Godena louisgodena at ids.net
Wed May 18 02:46:23 PDT 2005


Yeah, how would they do that?   I mean, heat something that big?  Individual 
spokes?   But, what about the rim?   And the hub?   Straightening the spokes 
would almost certainly affect the integrity of the rim, which has to fit 
precisely on the axle so as to fit into the "dogs" which trip the rake. 
Puzzling.

Louis G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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Subject: RE: [AT] Bending a wheel? [OT]


> Good bicycle shops straighten spoked wheels all the time -- and they do
> it with the wheel simply suspended from a bench vise.  The machinist
> friend that manufactured the new spoked wheel for my old Power King
> could do it, I'm sure, but he'd feel most comfortable about doing it if
> he had a steel table large enough to lay the whole wheel on.  That might
> pose a problem for a rake wheel.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana
> Robinson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:30 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Bending a wheel? [OT]
>
> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
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> Highlands,
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> 100
> years
> before the revolution.
>
>
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> Central Indiana USA
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