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Phil Reader

September 14, 2007 09:03AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Hi Ed,

The short,no. The wheels are cast iron and chilled. The chilling process
makes the tread surface real hard but once the tread either wears down, is slid on too much or cut, all the advatages of the chilled surface are gone. At that point the wheel(or wheel set) will need to be replaced.

Phil

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