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02-13-16, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Plimogz

If you clean the rims to examine the shape of the bottom of the grooves, that would give you some hints as to whether they were machined there by design. .....

I think that 4 identical grooves (both sides of 2 rims) is enough to infer that they are there by design, without needing to know anything else.

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