Road Force Balancer

[Robert Myers]

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Does the PHRASE "Monkey Lad" no longer mean anything to our list 
members?  The "ML" (tm) doesn't touch my car if I'm not there to 
watch and be sure he at least remembers "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey".

Cody, you are most definitely NOT a monkey lad but you've met them, I'm sure.

Bob


At 08:28 PM 1/25/2011, Vincent Gelinas wrote:
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>Excellent point and well said.
>
>V
>On Jan 25, 2011 8:00 PM, "John Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> > Road Force balancers are common. Pretty much every company that makes a
>balancer makes a road force, but Hunter is the most popular. I've been using
>them for 5 or 6 years now at the past few places I've worked.
> >
> > Customers should never be, and extremely rarely are, allowed in to a shop.
>The liability is huge. One customer wearing his flat bottomed loafers slips
>in a drop of oil and BAM the livelihood of everybody that works in that
>building is down the drain. A windowed viewing area should be all that you
>can hope for.
> >
> > -Cody (mobile)
> >
> > On Jan 25, 2011, at 6:18 PM, "Max Hoepli" <mhoepli at vif.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> For the first time a road force balancer was used on one of my rims was
> >> cleaned due to oxidation and refitted with the tire and balanced.
> >>
> >> Anyone have experience with this type of machine? Who are the
>manufacturers
> >> of road force balancers? And $$$.
> >>
> >> Automotive Import Market on Denison in Markham, Ontario claims to be the
> >> first shop in Canada to have such a balancer. I found the shop through
>Tire
> >> Rack. I didn't like the part that the car has to be driven to the back to
> >> the garage and clients are not allowed to be in the shop. Clients can
>wait
> >> in the large waiting room-rim/tire display centre.
> >>
> >> Max
> >>
> >>
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