>===== Original Message From Dietmar Schlei <dschlei@pressenter.com> =====
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> Any recommendations/hints are very welcome.
>
>Thanks to all!
>
Dietmar,
You must find a gas station, or more likely, a tire dealer that know how to
handle and balance wire wheels. The tire mounting machines that are used by
the average tire changer push up hard from the bottom only and can distort
your brand new WWs and ruin them for life. The dealer must use a more
expensive machine that applies pressure from both sides and doesn't use the
rim as a leverage point.
The balancing requires a slow spin computer machine with the special adapters
to very accurately center you WW hubs on the machine's drive shaft. The best
balance scheme is to use rim weights on both sides of the wheel... for the
best cosmetics you can use press on lead weights in the center like you see
used on many alloy wheels from companies like Tirerack.
This was related to me by a white hair tire dealer owner two towns away. He
loved the chance to work with the wire wheels and talked my ear off with
advice on old LBC times and WW care and feeding.
Brian Sanborn
62 TR4 CT16260L soon to be "O" - Groton, MA
My TR4 Restoration Web Site
http://www.net1plus.com/users/sanborn
E-Mail: sanborn@net1plus.com
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