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Morning... Have one flat spot on an otherwise perfectly good(enough) Weinmann concave front wheel. It's off a c.1983 Raleigh Quasar, so have a matching black pair with Malliard hubs and a 6-speed helio-thingy freewheel.
Must have been quite a kerb-stop to make the dent, but was wondering if anyone had one of those tools that you put in between the hub and the rim and them 'untighten' to push the flat area back out?
Have seen the tool on google-searches but a. they're as rare as and b. all my LBS's tell me not to bother / they don't have one.
Would like to save the wheel set and get it back on the bike. Have advertised to find another wheel but again, no luck...

Was tempted to, before stumbling across this site. Only thing that stopped me was the cost of having to buy a big enough spanner...

Right. Job done! Fantastic. Everything's indexed, everything appears (reasonably) true. The 'wheel-o-truer' approach is great, as I could measure off around the parallel rims to fine-tune the flexing. Will take it for a proving run tomorrow and see how we do.

Frame and carbon fork, 2140gms.
Have it over on Retrobike at the mo, but will move details here at the weekend as it's not attracting much attention. Happy to send info beforehand.
Cheers.

To both Scilly.Suffolk and Howard, really appreciate the suggestions. As I've a. spare old rear wheels and b. no cash, I'll try the 'wheel-o-truer' approach.
Cheers

Ok, have a mid-90's steel frame (fillet-brazed Deda tubing) and having spent at least an hour trying to get the gears indexed (Campag {barely used} Chorus crank to {used} Xenon rear mech, 10 speed, brand new Campag chain) it looks like the rear mech isn't quite true - and the culprit looks like the hanger. Which is part of the rear dropout, so not detachable.
So... can I (very, very, gently) try and cold-set it straight? Have a good-sized Record vice, so am prepared to have a go. Welcome any advice!