[TR] Wheel Shimmy

[Geo & Kathleen Hahn]

This would seem to be something that a skilled machinist could readily make. 
I have a drawing of the idea (came with my wire wheels) and, of course, a 
wheel.  Someone in our club has a significant other who is a gunsmith & 
machinist and has asked if anyone needed lathe work.

I suppose the one other thing would be to know the diameter of the shaft the 
cone mounts on on the balancing machine.

This would seem to be a good club project with the club holding onto the 
tool and lending it out to be taken to the tire shop for their use & 
returned.  I have spoken to a local tire shop and they (say they) are 
willing to use this to balance wires (probably because of the tires they 
will sell if they will do this).

I drive a bit too much and buy tires a bit to often to be shipping them off 
somewhere everytime I get a new set.

Am I missing something here or is this a reasonable approach?

Geo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>

> The proper cones are very rare, especially outside of places that 
> specialize
> in wire wheels (like Hendrix and Valley Wire Wheel in Van Nuys, CA) but 
> they
> do exist.