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Old 08-07-12, 10:44 AM   #20
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Default Re: Potentially stupid question about wheel balancing.

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Originally Posted by -Ralph- View Post
Anyone who disagrees, don't bother arguing with words on a forum, just post me a video of a wheel with discs and no tyre or valve, which has a heavy enough imbalance in it to rotate itself on a static wheel balancer, and settle itself with the heavy point at the bottom on it's own. You'd better have a lot of wheels, or a real Friday afternoon wheel where the aluminium didn't flow through the cast properly, to find one that lets you record that video.
I'm not interested in arguing or videoing it, but I've had one like that.

No idea why, I would expect if casting flow was a problem then there would be cold shuts etc. My guess is bits breaking off the cores used to form the hollow sections leaving a lump inside.
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