[Spridgets] wire wheels

[Guy R Day]

Call me a drone would you!!   LOL

Guy R Day


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Asgeirsson" <PAsgeirsson at att.net>
To: "Jay Fishbein" <jfishbein at snet.net>; <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheels


> Hi Jay,
>
> I've balanced a lot of wheels/tires in the past and still do.  I have an
> ancient Bear spin balancer. It's a wheel off the car wheel balancer.
>
> The first attempt using this device is to just static balance the wheel
> assembly, then spin it.  If it wasn't off balance dynamically, you might
> have it done!  If it's off, the weight positioning gadget readout tells 
> you
> where and how much weight to put on a specific location, be it static or
> dynamic, or change what your first guess was, IE: sorta has a wobble, Mac,
> message!  Then you usually put an equal weight pair of weights, 180 
> degrees
> away from each other, to correct that.  You know when you've got it right 
> as
> the tire will wind whistle at you as you spin it at high speed.
>
> A rather interesting bit is the tire has a tendency to change shape a bit 
> as
> it rotates at high speed.  This is especially true of non radial tires, 
> with
> no belt on them in their construction.
>
> The new off the car balancers simply tell you right away on the first 
> spin,
> where to stick on the weights and how heavy they should be.  Fast and 
> fairly
> accurate.
>
> Egads! Even a drone can do it!
>
> Later, Paul A
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jay Fishbein" <jfishbein at snet.net>
> To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheels
>
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> With all due respect, I posed the question because I am not sure your
> recommendations are correct (They could-be but I'm not sure.) and I was
> hoping that someone with industry experience would chime-in with some
> definitive advice.
>>
>> I believe your recommendation would correctly static balance a wheel and
> tire but would not effectively dynamically balance a wheel and tire.
>>
>> I would also be interested to know if wheels are in perfect balance. I
> doubt it but I'm not a wheel and tire expert.
>>
>> I'm not debating this, and have nothing more to add. I would just like to
> hear from someone with hands-on experience.
>>
>> Jay Fishbein
>> Tired-out
>>
>> --- On Wed, 10/14/09, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheels
>> To:
>> Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
>> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:26 AM
>>
>> Good thought, Jay. I don't think
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