Re: wheel straightening help...almost

["Meron" <phwomp@cosmoslink.net>]

>Helicopter manufacturers are required to test their rotor masts to within
some
>godawful tolerances.  For this they use some very sophisticated measuring
and
>muscular straightening equipment.  When this equipment gets out of
calibration
>it is cheaper to replace than repair and it is sold to whomever can find a
use
>for it.  This place is Dover has one of these systems.  They bolt a wheel
to a
>new, not used but new, hub assembly then the wheel is slowly rotated with
probes
>measuring the 'squareness' of the wheel.  A computer driven hydraulic ram
then

Sounds very interesting... so if you find the address let me know, I have
some wheels that could use some help....
The above story reminds me of a past life (doing R@D on internal combustion
engines) we had in the lab a calibration gauge set up for  pressure
transducers (18" gauge in  inches of H2O scale), I used to calibrate my
tire pressure gauge on it......
Avi Meron