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wheel balancing
Written by csury on 8/20/2010 at 03:50 pm

The BB pellets are about 6 mm in diameter, plastic, weigh .12 grams each, and
are sold for guns that shoot with compressed air or CO2 cartridges. I guess
they would also work in spring-loaded toy guns. Mine are green, but I've seen
similar sold in all colours. Wiki has an article on them at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft_pellets

I regularly travel on the highway at speeds of 130 kmph (80 mph) for long
periods of time. They seem to work at that speed just as well as around town,
so I guess they're good for more than slow driving ladies. I have yet to put
the PC on the race track so I can't vouch for race speeds. ;-)

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Alfred W" <alfred.wams@...> wrote:
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> That is good news C. Now for the slow driving lady or guy that has a true
balancing problem and is able to solves that with those beads. Such has been
proven already (unless at great speed it works) but is nice to hear anyway.
Unbalancing a wheel without beads (biets) is not to difficult by the way. I am
going to try this, within 2000 miles, because the balancing weight in a tire is
lower as the lead on the rim. My new tire will probably have beads that you can
buy to fill teddy-bear. Are the pallets you described not light in weight,
yellow and 1/2 a cm wide? For a toy gun with a spring? Shooting this is not
allowed in Holland but I do have them here. It looks to be much to light in
weight and just could be .12 grams. Describe what you have got. - I remember
riding my small scooter and a child suddenly pointing such gun at me while his
father was buying a car, me braking and two cars behind me hit one another.
Everybody mad. - That is also a terrible big size. The teddy-bear filling is 1/3
to 1/2 as wide and I will take the bigger pearls out. I do not know the costs
because I had the bag for free. I have a permit to collect materials in garbage.
Alfred
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> --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, csury@ wrote:
> >
> > I just changed my rear tire in the driveway a few days ago, installed a BF
Goodrich Radial TA 155/80-15 and balanced it using green plastic Crossman
Soft-Air BB pellets.
> >
> > The pellets were just $9 for 2,000 pellets, and at .12 grams per pellet, it
worked out to about 550 pellets to get about 2-1/4 ounces to balance the rear
tire. I fed the pellets into the tire between the rim and the tire bead after
spooning the tire on the rim, and before using air to seat the bead onto the
rim. If you go this route, just make sure you don't get any pellets stuck
between the tire bead and the rim.
> >
> > I thought it might have been snake oil at first, but it seems to work just
fine. The ride is perfectly smooth at highway speeds, and you don't hear the
pellets swirling around inside the tire. I'm happy with the results and will do
the same when I change out the front tire in a few weeks.
> >
> >
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