Wheel balancing 101

[sdewitt at stx.rr.com]

Powder? Hmmm. 

I've heard of using steel shot, way back when cars couldn't go over 30 mph. I'd like to see what that does to an aluminium rim!

I have seen weights that have a heavy powder in them that are clamped to the rim. The powder distributes itself within the weight to make a better balance.


----- Original Message -----
From: Nadjkovic Kraig A TSgt 552 CMS/MXMVC <Kraig.Nadjkovic at tinker.af.mil>
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:55 am
Subject: RE: Wheel balancing 101

> I'd love to hear more about this, but I'll give you my gut 
> reaction, based
> on my years of experience of being an idiot: BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!  
> What happens
> to this powder when the atmoshpheric (not hemispheric) air you put 
> in the
> tires makes it damp and it clumps up?  The only powder I've heard 
> of putting
> in tires came from south of the border.
> nadj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Robert Myers
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:39 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com; Quattro list
> Subject: Wheel balancing 101
> 
> 
> Hi Y'all,
> 
> I took my new snow tires to my local tire shop for mounting and 
> balancing.While there I was told of a powder substance which can 
> be placed inside a
> tire and which will provide automatic perfect balancing as you 
> drive.  If
> this actually works, and it sounds like it might, it may be a very 
> gooddevelopment.  I was given no name for the stuff.
> 
> Does anyone have any knowledge of this?  Any BTDTs?
> 
> 
> Bob
> Random Bushism: "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it 
> hemisphericin nature because it is a product that we can find in 
> our neighborhoods." 
> George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000 _____ Robert Myers
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