Very true, Michael, but a bubble balancer or the motorcycle equivalent
is what is available to most of us most of the time. At least it
seats the wheel on an appropriate cone. If you take your wheels to a
"Tires R Us" place the wheels won't be seated on one cone, let alone
two. The result can be pretty miserable.
So, it is recorded in the archives that one can midify a splined hub
and a knock-off to mount our wire wheels to a modern wheel balancer. I
am willing to produce a set like that but I am not a machinist. Are
there drawings anywhere that I could take to a real machinist to
modify the pieces (I have plenty of them lying around)?
Any Healey enthusiast machinists who are looking for something to
while awaythe winter hours snowed in? I would pay for a set of cones,
one interior one exterior in a heartbeat.
-Roland
-BN1 #724
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:43:21 -0400, you wrote:
>The difficulty that you will encounter with that type of balancer is that
>it is a single plane balancer.
>That will be fine for the rear wheels (insofar as perceivable imbalance is
>concerned) but...
>If the tire has a lot of weight on say one sidewall at one point adding
>weight on the other sidewall, opposite the weight on the first sidewall,
>will produce a satisfactory result on that type of balancer (and perhaps a
>rear mounted wheel) but an imbalance that will be felt in the steering if
>the wheel is fitted to the front.
>To ensure that the weight is installed on the correct side of the wheel a
>dynamic 2 plane balancer is essential.
>
>Michael S
>BN1 #174
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