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Re: wire wheel balancing

To: "Carol" <car@texas.net>, "John Kahoon" <john.kahoon@pcohio.com>,
Subject: Re: wire wheel balancing
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 97 10:01:01 -0400
Hello??? Carol

>Again, an alternative to traditional spin balancing and to bubble balancing
>is high-speed balancing of the wheel on the axle it will be "living on."
>The shop I used (Southwest Brake) has a clientele of mostly trucks and
>semi's. If the wheels had needed weights, the cost would have been $15 a
>wheel. 
>
>IMO, that's a better balancing job and will use them in the future for my
>daily driver (non-LBC), too.
>
>My .02
>
>
>Carol
>
>
My brother-in-law (rest) worked in a tire place and did this type of 
balancing as well as the newer computerized kind and swore by the 
spin-on-axle kind. I wish I could find somebody that would do that now.

Larry Macy
78 Midget

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