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Re: [Healeys] Wheel balance

To: Healey Lista <healeys@autox.team.net> milter-greylist-4.0 (smtpout2.bornet.net [148.160.16.68]); Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:20:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Wheel balance
From: Magnus Karlsson <magnuskarlsson@bornet.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:20:09 +0200
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Do not try to modify a hub and spinner to fit on a wheel balancer. It will not
give a satisfactory result. The best way is to machine one inner and one outer
cone that will fit the shaft on a particular machine. The holes in the cones
need to be two to three hundreds of a millimeter larger than the shaft.

Once I made my own set of cones I found that the Dunlop wheels made in India
infact are very good, requiring only very small weights.

Magnus Karlsson
BorC%s Motor Corporation AB
www.concourshealeys.com

> 24 okt 2013 kl. 05:21 skrev rwil@sbcglobal.net:
>
> Very true, Michael, but a bubble balancer or the motorcycle equivalent
> is what is available to most of us most of the time.  At least it
> seats the wheel on an appropriate cone. If you take your wheels to a
> "Tires R Us" place the wheels won't be seated on one cone, let alone
> two.  The result can be pretty miserable.
>
> So, it is recorded in the archives that  one can midify a splined hub
> and a knock-off to mount our wire wheels to a modern wheel balancer. I
> am willing to produce a set like that but I am not a machinist.  Are
> there drawings anywhere that I could take to a real machinist to
> modify  the pieces (I have plenty of them lying around)?
>
> Any Healey enthusiast machinists who are looking for something to
> while awaythe winter hours snowed in?  I would pay for a set of cones,
> one interior one exterior in a heartbeat.
>
> -Roland
> -BN1 #724
>
>
>
>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:43:21 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> The difficulty that you will encounter with that type of balancer is that
>> it is a single plane balancer.
>> That will be fine for the rear wheels (insofar as perceivable imbalance is
>> concerned) but...
>> If the tire has a lot of weight on say one sidewall at one point adding
>> weight on the other sidewall, opposite the weight on the first sidewall,
>> will produce a satisfactory result on that type of balancer (and perhaps a
>> rear mounted wheel) but an imbalance that will be felt in the steering if
>> the wheel is fitted to the front.
>> To ensure that the weight is installed on the correct side of the wheel a
>> dynamic 2 plane balancer is essential.
>>
>> Michael S
>> BN1 #174
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