Neil:
Ever see anyone do it with a coke bottle half full of water and a string?
I was in a shop in the sixties where they would half fill a coke bottle
with water and tie a string around the neck of the bottle. They then tied
the other end of the string to the outside mirror and jacked up that side
of the car. They put something like a hubcap with a protruding spindle
over the wheel and stuck a motorized device to spin the tire under the
tire of the wheel being balanced. The mechanic would then adjust the
rings on the protruding spindle until the water in the coke bottle didn't
shake and was sitting level at various speeds. The adjusting rings
indicated the amount of weight to be added to the wheel at certain
locations.
I guess this was a hybrid static-dynamic balance. LOL
Richard
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:04:13 -0500 "Neil W. Bellenger"
<neil624b@rochester.rr.com> writes:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Josh Battles
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:03 AM
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: DML: Re: RE: Re: Re: Swapping tires at the dealer?
>
> <I don't know about that whole bubble thing... I worked in a shop
> (sears
> auto) as
> a mechanic and also did tires. Any time you wanted to balance the
> wheel, it
> went on a spin balancer>
>
> My tire weight hammering days were late 50's, early 60's while in
> high
> school.
> Spin balancers were just coming out. Only the large volume tire
> dealers and
> distributors had them.
> The corner gas stations had a static balancing cone on the tire
> machine. Lay
> weights on the tire rim until the bubble is centered in the circle,
> then
> hammer them in.
> These are the terms I learned, they are still valid, and I still use
> them.
> Static means the tire isn't moving.
> The first spin balancers had no hood over the tire. After enough
> people got
> hit in the face with stones coming out of the tire tread, the
> manufacturers
> added the flip open hood.
>
> Term and definitions don't need to change with every generation.
>
> It's like the location on a "V" configured engine with a single
> camshaft.
> It's the lifter VALLEY.
>
> Gaskets that seal the valley and create a plenum there are valley
> gaskets.
>
> A transmission that requires the ratios to be selected manually is a
> manual
> transmission. It doesn't matter whether it was included in the
> standard
> equipment for the vehicle or is an option.
>
> A hitch that allows connection of a trailer with a lunette ring has
> no
> commonality with horses with a dual-colored coat pattern; it's a
> pintle
> hitch.
>
>
>
>
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