Hi Jack, your reactions are always welcome, as long as they reflect my opinion
(just kidding).
Ok, my mistake, I only told half of the story. Here it goes....
When I bought my BT7 2 years ago I put new tires on it, the old ones were about
10 years old. Within this summer more and more spokes broke although I had all
suspect spokes replaced one year ago. I bought new wheels just 2 weeks ago and
had my tires put on them. The work was done by a shop in my vicinity which is
well known for taking care of spoke wheels.
Wheels were first balanced dynamically on a modern machine (with an appropriate
adaptor) and weights were glued to the outer and the inner edge of the rim.
After that the wheels were put on the car and balanced electronically, as
described further below.
Sorry, my mistake, should have mentioned that in my first mail.
Eric BT7
Heinsberg/Germany
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Von: P.J.Aeckerlin [mailto:j.aeckerlin@tiscali.nl]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. September 2005 18:56
An: Frenken, Eric; Healeys
Betreff: Re: AW: 45 to55 shake
Eric, allow me a reaction:
Balancing on the vehicle may look ideal but is in fact second choice as
it is a form of static balancing. Balancing a wheel off the car on a
modern machine takes away the unbalance on both sides of the wheel. You
can split the wheel (in theory) in an inner part and an outer part and
the unbalance per part is recognized by the machine, resulting in
different weights on different spots on the inner- and the outer rim.
Unfortunately there are hardly any companies that can balance an Austin
healey wheel in this way as they need special tooling to 'grip' the
wheel in the proper way.
Balancing on the car cannot make the distinction where exactly the
course of the unbalance is located and is therefore not as good as
dynamic balancing on a machine. It does, however, take into account any
unbalance created by the brake drum!
(I irregularly work in a tire shop)
Regards,
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432
Frenken, Eric wrote:
>Beau, lately I had my wheels balanced while they were mounted to the car. They
>called it 'electronic balancing'. This guy was certainly doing a very good job
>as he tried to eliminate the shaking first by rotating the wheel relatively to
>the hub by 90 degrees (3 times each wheel) to find the best position where the
>least weights had to be used.
>
>Labour (~ 2 hours) was around 80 Euros (~100 US$), improve in riding quality
>invaluable!
>
>Eric BT7
>Heinsberg/Germany
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