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Terry Coombs[_2_]

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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:38:06 -0600, "Terry Coombs"
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:50:39 -0800 (PST), wrote:

I use change tires for a living and learned a easy trick to balance
a tire if you lower the air pressure to 10 - 15 pounds drive for
about 30 miles the tires will balance themselves I haven't payed
for tire balence in 20 years
I'm, calling BS.
As a mechanic since the late sixties.

Hey Clare , have you tried microbeads ? A guy I know swears they
work just swell , I'd think they would pick up the heavy spot and
make things worse .
I know a guy who tried them in his 33 inch tires on a jeep and he
swore "at" them. Theoretically they should work for slight imballance.
I used to have a set of self balancing plates that boted on between
the drum and rim on my '53 Coronet. They were effective and used a
tube of "shot" on the outer circumference. Good for up to about an
ounce of inbalance The beeds could do the fine balance after doing a
rough "bubble balance" Bubble balancers are readily available at a
decent price and used to be the only way to balance a tire before spin
balancers came along (on-car first, then the electronic off-car
dynamic balancers in common use today)

I'll be mounting a tire on Mr Motorcycle in a few days , and will be using
a static type balancer . Basically a straight rod thru the hub , with a pair
of bearings on the outboard ends . Bearings to be supported by a pair of
jackstands or similar . Gotta get the centering cones machined ...

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Snag