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Re: Wire Wheel Balancing

To: "C. Donald Emery, III" <cdemery3@thor.pla-net.net>
Subject: Re: Wire Wheel Balancing
From: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen)
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:35:29 -0500
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Hi Donald:

Take the car to a truck specialty place where they do wheel work.  They
have balancers which spin the wheels on the car.  This will do the trick.

John McEwen



>Wire Wheel Experts:
>   I put a new set of Dayton 5.5 X 15 in., 72 spoke chrome wires on my '69
>TR-6 about one year ago.  Repeated attempts to have them balanced using the
>newer computerized spin balancers have ben unsuccessful.  They can't center
>spline wheels.  Dayton suggests using the following in order of preference:
>   1.  An Alemite type balancer which balances the tires while on the car;
>   2.  A Hoffman spin balancer with center-lock adapters (Dayton says there
>were made about 20 years ago and I have a 1 in 100 chance of finding one!);
>and
>   3.  A good old fashion bubble balancer.
>   The problem is that I haven't been able to find a tire shop with either
>the Alemite or Hoffman spin balancers. Does anyone know of a tire shop in
>the Chicago Area or NW Indiana Area with either on of these?
>   If not, has anyone had their wheels balanced using a bubble balancer in
>the last 20 years?...and if so, how does it work?
>   Thanks in advance for your help.
>                           Don Emery
>                           Crown Point, IN
>                           CC 27639
>                           1969 TR-6



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