1930's Wheel balance weights that thread on to studs on the Wire Wheel rim

[Mark Gregory]

These are weights that thread on to predetermined studs on a wire wheel rim from the 1930's 

Reo Royale used them and other high end cars ?

Did Ford and Chevrolet have them ?

 

The tall one on the left is 3.2 0unce and ~1” tall. 
The short one on the right is 2.2 ounce and ~ 49/64” tall. 

 

 

 

The tall one on the left is 3.2 0unce and ~1” tall. 
The short one on the right is 2.2 ounce and ~ 49/64” tall. 

 

 

 

[Hans1]

I seem t recall chrysler cars had washers on studs to provide balancing 

Is my memory ..................

[hwellens]

Chrysler had them. See picture. Studs between the spokes to attach weights.

[Guest]

 You can't beat soldier wound around the spokes.

                                     

[46 woodie]

Roger, my father in law told me that's what they did, used plumbers, 50-50 solder wrapped around a spoke to balance the wheel. Cheap and effective!

[Graham Man]

My 1929 Graham-Paige 827 uses them, just painted wheel color, fastest I have had the car is about 70 no wheel balance problems.  My smaller Graham cars do not use them.

 

[Mark Gregory]

How did they balance the tire and wheel in the 1930's ?

 

Spinning and a strobe light affair ?

[Layden B]

Pieces with set screws fit lock rings.

The Bear box has attachment instruction on the cover.

Where to place them?? Balance with the wheel horizontal off the car AND/OR spin a front off the ground and see where it repeatedly stops. Crude but effective enough for the speeds at that time.

[wayne sheldon]

For whatever it is worth. For wooden spoke wheels, the common steel felloe types used during the '20s. I have put cut-to-fit pieces of water pipe on the lug bolts to balance wheels. These pieces are placed on the lug bolts inside the steel felloe, out of sight and out of mind. With only four or five (depending upon the car and wheel) places for the bolts to hold the pipe pieces, balancing gets a bit tricky. However, a larger weight on one bolt, with a smaller weight on an adjacent bolt, shifts the weight point to an area between the bolts. I fit them snug so they don't rattle. And they work fine for antique car speeds. 

Balancing is done static, on the spindle for fronts, and hanging on a wire for rear wheels (off the car).