[Fot] Balancing wire wheels

[timmmurphh at gmail.com]

I just got my balancer working again and tried balancing a 4-1/2 inch wide
and a 5-1/2 inch wide wire wheel off of a Triumph TR4A and a TR5.  If I try
to do a 2-plane or dynamic balance, I get very large weights, like 4 to 5
ounces that are to be added.  If I do a single plane, static balance, then I
get reasonable weights to add like a couple of ounces at most.  I think that
unless the wire wheel has been recently trued very accurately this is going
to be the result.  The wheels have large run out compared to alloy wheels.
What have others who have tried to balance wire wheels come up with?

 

I got lucky with my balancer and could just use one of the cones and the
large "T-nut" which mated up with the OD of the spline tube perfectly.

 

Tim Murphy

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