snow tires and nit picking

[Tihol Tiholov]

Hehehe!
I've done this, too, on sets of used winter tires I bought. Gets worse:
I've mounted by myself (by hand, with a Chinese "machine") several sets of
used tires and had them balanced at a tire shop. Actually, I still drive on
a winter tire that I balanced myself on another Chinese machine with a
point and an air bubble. It was the best decision at the time - November,
night, a trip coming up through the Coastal range - after having mounted
the other 3 wheels, on the last 1 the balancing weights fell off with no
clean spot to find (guess that's why they fell off).

Tihol
keep up the handy work.

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> Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 19:59:03 -0600
> From: DeWitt Harrison <dewitt635 at gmail.com>
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> I'm curious to know if there are others besides myself who are OCD enough
> to pick out the bits of gravel that get trapped in the many grooves and
> sipes characteristic of snow tires while doing their seasonal tire
> changeover, prior to storing the snows. If so, you poor devils, how small
> do you go? Pea size? Or as small as is visible? I have to admit to easily
> spending 15 minutes per tire picking hundreds of such nits. I should
> probably get a life.
>
> DeWitt
> '88 5000CS
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