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Re: Re: Balancing Tires With Golf Balls
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Posted by magic balls on November 28, 2003 at 11:38:16 from (66.157.81.145):
In Reply to: Re: Balancing Tires With Golf Balls posted by MarkB on November 28, 2003 at 05:19:50:
Mark while I was going to leave it with Allan's answer I figured I would let the cat out the bag.
See a spinning object will always try to balance it self. Think about it a minute. If you take a pan of water and spin it on a center point. Water will be forced to outside. (right) Will it all run to one side? No. Centrifugal force will send a even amount of water in all directions balancing it.
See the tire is unbalanced and jumping up and down. Every time the heavy side of the tire gets to the top it makes the tire jump up. The balls or what ever you put in tires moves around until it gets to the light side of the tire counter balancing it then stay there till you stop.
Water is a better thing to use as it is not as abrasive as a hard object on the inside of the tire but anything will work even a hand full of rocks. Hard objects play he## with any patches or plugs you may have in tire.
They make a ring that is a hollow tube with metal balls in it. It is the size of the rim and bolts between the drum and rim that does the same thing.
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