Call me a drone would you!! LOL
Guy R Day
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Asgeirsson" <PAsgeirsson@att.net>
To: "Jay Fishbein" <jfishbein@snet.net>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheels
> Hi Jay,
>
> I've balanced a lot of wheels/tires in the past and still do. I have an
> ancient Bear spin balancer. It's a wheel off the car wheel balancer.
>
> The first attempt using this device is to just static balance the wheel
> assembly, then spin it. If it wasn't off balance dynamically, you might
> have it done! If it's off, the weight positioning gadget readout tells
> you
> where and how much weight to put on a specific location, be it static or
> dynamic, or change what your first guess was, IE: sorta has a wobble, Mac,
> message! Then you usually put an equal weight pair of weights, 180
> degrees
> away from each other, to correct that. You know when you've got it right
> as
> the tire will wind whistle at you as you spin it at high speed.
>
> A rather interesting bit is the tire has a tendency to change shape a bit
> as
> it rotates at high speed. This is especially true of non radial tires,
> with
> no belt on them in their construction.
>
> The new off the car balancers simply tell you right away on the first
> spin,
> where to stick on the weights and how heavy they should be. Fast and
> fairly
> accurate.
>
> Egads! Even a drone can do it!
>
> Later, Paul A
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Fishbein" <jfishbein@snet.net>
> To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheels
>
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> With all due respect, I posed the question because I am not sure your
> recommendations are correct (They could-be but I'm not sure.) and I was
> hoping that someone with industry experience would chime-in with some
> definitive advice.
>>
>> I believe your recommendation would correctly static balance a wheel and
> tire but would not effectively dynamically balance a wheel and tire.
>>
>> I would also be interested to know if wheels are in perfect balance. I
> doubt it but I'm not a wheel and tire expert.
>>
>> I'm not debating this, and have nothing more to add. I would just like to
> hear from someone with hands-on experience.
>>
>> Jay Fishbein
>> Tired-out
>>
>> --- On Wed, 10/14/09, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Jim Johnson <bmwwxman@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheels
>> To:
>> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
>> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:26 AM
>>
>> Good thought, Jay. I don't think
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