To Spookeay Bird: My old pair took a hard hit last week, but the bump (if that case) should have gone away when I used my friends almost-never-used-set.

To DScott: That's crossed my mind, and the idea really sucks haha but that will be a last resort. I don't have the money at the time...

To Bob Dopolina: I will try that! Again, my brother and dad have disassembled and reassembled these wheels twice now but I'm not sure how much experience
they have with Gatorskins (material difference). We certainly haven't tried that little trick and I will do so ASAP. Thank you.

To JoelS: It's been a great curiousity of mine if they work on my friends, but again, his bike has been stripped of many of it's parts, and it would take some
effort to try it out...

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR POSTS AND TIME!!