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I trued up a set of 6 19" wheels recently. A couple of them were out up to 3/8" and they still had straight spokes. For those two, I mounted them on an of junk axle and I put a 4 X 4 against the rim where it was standing proud. I then bumped the high spot with a 15 pound sledge hammer until it measured true. I was amazed how easily the wheel moved to true with a little hammer work. Checking the wheels after straightening for cracks or other flaws proved them to be now perfect for the powder coat man. They came back from him looking brand new. He only charged me $75 each to do them. He shot peaned them instead of sand blasting them before powder coating them. The wheels that I had to shrink the spokes came out nice too. Before shrinking the spokes, those particular spokes were already bent. I had to shrink them to get them to stay straight. Les Schwab Tire is where I dropped the wheels off and they sent them out to the powder coat man in Oregon.