[Shop-talk] Balancing wheels

[Tom Coradeschi]

That’s a great idea!

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Tom Coradeschi
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> On 06 Sep 2020, at 6:17 PM, old dirtbeard <dirtbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What I have found true for motorcycle wheels is that the valve stem in fact often is not the heaviest segment of the wheel. I now balance my wheels first without a tire and spray paint inside the rim the heaviest point, and then align the yellow dot to that spot.
> 
> You only need to do the wheel balance once (the wheel balance should not change over time) and it has reduced the amount of weight necessary for the balance job.
> 
> best,
> 
> doug
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> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 2:49 PM Brian Kemp <bk13 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> New tires have had a dot indicating where the tire should line up close to the valve stem.  I got new tires for my new to me GT6 and thought they used a lot of weight - a 4" long one near a 2" long one.  Wondered if my rims might be bad.  Commented to a club member and they pointed out that my tires were mostly mounted about 180 deg off based on the tire marking vs. the valve stem.  Went back and talked to a manager and he said sometimes tires can take that much weight - not a problem with the big SUVs every drives these days.  Told him they were little 13" tires and he came out and looked at the car.  He had an experienced person adjust and rebalance the tires and the longest weight was then under 2".
> 
> Brian
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> On 9/5/2020 6:24 PM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
>> Two thoughts:
>> 
>> I have some really good foam tape - maybe 3M?  You can find it in all the usual places.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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? 
>> 
>> 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.) 
>> 
>> All my searches come up with the weights already on the tape, but I just want to tape. 
>> 
>> Thanks. 
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> Just wondering. 
>> 
>> Thanks. 
>> 
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