[Shop-talk] Balancing wheels

[Bob Spidell]

Even the old lead 'clip-on' type?  Seems like a waste of lead.

On 9/6/2020 9:42 AM, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
> I won’t bore you all with how long ago I was in the business, but we never reused balance weights. They all went straight into the scrap bucket.
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> I no longer change tires, except for motorcycle and lawnmower/snowblower types, but the local shop who takes care of the tires on our 4-wheeled vehicles does the same to this day.
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> Time is money and balance weights are cheap.
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> —
> Tom Coradeschi
> tjcora at icloud.com
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>> On 06 Sep 2020, at 1:12 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Why not call a tire shop and ask what they use? I can't believe they don't re-use weights on occasion.
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>> On 9/5/2020 6:24 PM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
>>> Two thoughts:
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>>> I have some really good foam tape - maybe 3M?  You can find it in all the usual places.
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>>> I was always under the impression that new tires had a stamp thar indicated either the heavy spot or the light spot - it was meant to be mounted next to the valve stem.  That was supposed to minimize the amount of additional weight that needed to be applied.  It's been 40 years since I balanced a tire, though - things may have changed.
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>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:37 AM <eric at megageek.com> wrote:
>>> So I been balancing wheels for a while now and I was wondering.  Can I just buy the double sided tape to reuse all the stick on wheel weights I have to remove each time?
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>>> It seems like a no brainier to be able to reuse the weights, but I can't find a double sided tape for that. (I'm guessing it needs to be pretty good stuff to resist bumps, water, ice, dirt, etc.)
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>>> All my searches come up with the weights already on the tape, but I just want to tape.
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>>> Thanks.
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>>> BTW, does anyone have any tips on how to balance tires?  I've watched a bunch of videos, but it always seems that I need to balance and add weights 5 or 6 times and end up putting on what seems like a lot of weight for each tire.
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>>> Just wondering.
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>>> Thanks.
>>>
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