Great comments Lawrie ... may I add; balancing true wire wheels on the car, or
static balancing is superior to dynamic balancing.
Of course the machinery to balance on the car is NLA so few tire stores have
them, as they break they "go away". And the static
bubble machines are available, but try to find a tire store that has one, and
has someone that will use it ...
Larry Hoy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Lawrie Alexander
>Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 10:10 PM
>To: Phil Bates
>Cc: MG List
>Subject: Re: Need wheels trued
>
>
>In the good old tradition of "never turn away a job that'll bring in a buck
>or two", most tire shops claim they can balance wire wheels. They mount them
>on their dynamic balancers using their regular collars and the wheels seldom
>end up exactly at 90 degrees to the axis of the machine's spindle. The
>result is a wheel that spins out of true but can still be brought into
>balance by applying large amounts of weight.
>
>Ever notice how disc wheels usually have just one or two small weights on
>the rim, while wire wheels usually have great gobs of weight on one side
>and, coincidentally, an almost equal amount of weight diametrically opposed
>on the other side? Sometimes this results in a wheel that remains more or
>less in balance when it is mounted on the car, sometimes not. If you take it
>back and ask for it to be re-balanced, the usual answer is that the wheel
>is out of true and needs to be re-trued.
>
>The real problem, of course, is that there are so few wire wheeled cars on
>the road (relatively speaking) that
>no commercial company makes a proper adapter to mount wire wheels. Unless
>there's a resourceful British car shop in the area, prepared to have an
>adapter made from an old hub and an old knock-off, and then a tire shop
>willing to use that adapter, most owners of wire-wheeled cars are pretty
>much out of luck.
>
>Lawrie
>British Sportscar Center
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