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1. 03:13 AM - Re: Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing (Tex Mantell)
2. 07:44 PM - Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing (Bill Strahan)
3. 08:54 PM - Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing (Dave Mccorquodale)
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Subject: | Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing |
Bill, buy a new tire. Its not worth failing a few hundred miles away from
home.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Strahan" <bill@gdsx.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:36 PM
Subject: Lightning-List: Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing
>
> It's got about 35 hours on it. It required about 1.25 ounce when it was
> new. I don't recall landing with the brakes on! :)
>
> There are no flat spots, and insignificant wear, but it isn't perfectly
> round either. When I just spin the wheel I can see perhaps 3/32" of out
> of roundness, but that doesn't correlate with the heavy side, so I don't
> think that's the problem? Brand? I don't even recall, but I'll look next
> time I'm in the hanger. I think it's a 6 ply tire.
>
> I like the tires well balanced, which is why I own the balancer. Ditto
> for prop balance. Vibration in an airplane is a great thing to minimize.
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=396707#396707
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>
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Subject: | Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing |
wb2ssj(at)rochester.rr.co wrote:
> Bill, buy a new tire. Its not worth failing a few hundred miles away from
> home.
> ---
Good advice, but the question still applies to any balance job. It's a pain to
add weights to the tiny rims on these planes, and if the extra tube piece inside
the tire won't cause problems it would either eliminate or greatly reduce the
weights on the rim.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=396779#396779
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Subject: | Re: Unorthodox Tire Balancing |
have u tried spin balancing these tires
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Porter
To: lightning-list@matronics.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Lightning-List: Unorthodox Tire Balancing
Install a new tire/tube?
Might be easier and a better fix long-term.
Gordon
From: Bill Strahan <bill@gdsx.com>
To: lightning-list@matronics.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:01 PM
Subject: Lightning-List: Unorthodox Tire Balancing
One of my tires is severely out of balance. I have a Marc Parnes tire
balancer, and it is SUPER sensitive, but this is so out of balance it
will rotate on the wheels bearings!
So in attempting to balance it, I've determined it would take 2.5
ounces on the rim to bring it into balance it. The wheel is so small
compared to the tire that it takes a lot of weight to fix an imbalance
in the tire. (And yes, I've rotated the tire on the rim to make sure
it's really the tire. It is. )
So I started thinking about how it would be so much easier to balance
if I could get the weight further out on the tire instead of inside the
rim. Then I saw that old inner tube laying there...
So my question is this: If I cut a flat section of old tube and laid
it inside the tire, between the tube and tire, does anyone have an
opinion on whether or not that's going to wear a flat spot on the tube?
I've felt the inside of the tire, and it's by no means smooth. It has
grooves and imperfections that feel about the same thickness as the wall
of the old tube, so it would seem to me that it would be fine.
Opinions?
If it would work, I could balance it with a fraction of the weight,
and I'd never worry about one of the weights being slung off the rim and
going on a wheelpant eating spree.
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