Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver

Seriously... an old trick I learned to take all the build stresses and wind up out of wheels is to hang them over the wood stove in our shop after they were built which would heat them up to a few hundred degrees F and then let them cool down. This is a temperature wheels are not going to see unless you ride them on blistering descents where they can get hot enough to singe your fingers (or melt the glue off tubulars).

My partner called these 0/0 wheels and they were as perfect as a wheel can get, I have a few sets of these and they are built to an incredible tolerance of less than 2/1000... this is what happens when machinists build wheels.



I have measured out some of my personal wheels after the rims have worn out or been run many 10's of thousands of km and found they were still at their original build spec which could be as low as 5/1000 tolerances if the parts were right... many of these have seen hot summers, freezing winters, roads, and trails and taken a pounding.