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Thanks Jeff, for the quick reply. I was moving from the outside to the middle, as you mention, and taking the speed as directed: what was it, 90 seconds over the width of the wheel? Next time it's required I'll try to speed things up a bit. The rest of the machine is first rate. I just hadn't expected the wheel to need so much work out of the box.

I bought a new T-3 some months ago. Right off the bat I could see that the wheel was not true. Side to side motion didn't bother so much as the up and down motion, which was considerable. I could watch the handle of my chisel move up and down as the blade contacted the out-of-round stone. Back to the online store to spend more money on a diamond truing wheel. Mounting it in the square tool jig and working across the stone there was a tremendous amount of vibration within the the truing wheel. Tried to brace the support as I used it but there was still way too much play, it seems, within in the diamond tip housing to really true up the wheel; so much so that I managed to score the wheel badly in my attempts.

I was working carefully and I wasn't trying to take too much off the stone at a time. I was just left with the feeling that the housing for the diamond tip was a bit cheap. Not satisfying after spending $80 on it. I finally got the wheel relatively square and true but not without a lot of fussing around. Am I missing something?