Some of the rims on our lbcs are rim centric and some our hub centric. I
wish there was a lug centric machine in my area because my MGB's rims are
lug centric and I have a sneaky suspicion that the Spitfire is as well.
The common hub centric machine isn't much use on a lug centric rim if the
centre hole is misaligned with the lugs.
Mark
1973 MGBGT
1980 Spitfire 1500
Subject: Re: [TR] how they balance allow wheels
>"new" balancer that actually mounts via the lug nut holes.
One of these machines is what start4ed my quest to cure run out last year.
I suppose they are great machines if everything about the wheel is bone
stock and clean. Every time I has my wheels balanced this way the boys at
Costco
would tell me my wheels were bent. My wheels were set to less than 0.020
run out on a lathe and they have never hit anything. Turns out the powder
coating on was also in the lug holes and misaligned them on the machine. I
did go back to another place that has the center hole type machine.
Best regards,
Tom
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