Re: ShopTalk: Balls: To spin or to float...

2002-10-20 Thread Mark A. Patton
From a non engineer: Remembering back to my days of Exxon TBA work experience when static balancing gave way to dynamic balancing: Dynamic balancing places more emphasis on smaller amounts of disportionate weight located closer to the hub (central point of rotation) This well in point could be t

Re: ShopTalk: trimmin bimatrix???

2002-10-20 Thread Tom Janson
John,   How much did the cpms change when you trimmed  the 1 1/2"?   Tom - Original Message - From: John Payne To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 6:47 PM Subject: RE: ShopTalk: trimmin bimatrix??? Tom,   I've cut up to 1 1/2" witho

RE: ShopTalk: trimmin bimatrix???

2002-10-20 Thread John Payne
Tom,   I've cut up to 1 1/2" without any problems.   John

RE: ShopTalk: Balls: To spin or to float...

2002-10-20 Thread John Payne
Chris   What a can of worms you have opened. I have no technical expertise or engineering back ground but having grown up in the automotive industry I can say that dynamic balancing is by far the best way to balance tires. As you said, with driver or even more with iron shots the ball will s

ShopTalk: trimmin bimatrix???

2002-10-20 Thread Tom Janson
I know that you are not supposed to tip trim the bimatrix shafts but I was wondering if anybody had done it anyway and if so were there any problems.  I'd like to stiffen up a Rocket bimatrix a little bit for my own use.   Tom Janson

Re: ShopTalk: Balls: To spin or to float...

2002-10-20 Thread Mark A. Patton
Hmmm, what type of balls were these? Curious if by chance they had a liquid center (ie some center component that could move relative to the cover of the ball if tolerances were great enough and the rate of spin was great enough.) I'm curious to see reponses to your question. On a side note, I

ShopTalk: Balls: To spin or to float...

2002-10-20 Thread Chris Burns
Here's one for you techies to think over and hopefully offer an explanation for.   I've been using my new ball spinner for a month or two and thought I'd see how the "equator" mark compared to the mark found when floating a ball via Pelz's method.   I took a dozen new balls, floated them all

ShopTalk: Powder Painting In Your Garage

2002-10-20 Thread Richard Kennedy
I just ran across a site that talks about Powder Painting in your Garage.  http://www.twoguysgarage.com/site/home.php    You'll have to scroll down about three inchs to get to the Powder Painting article.  Hope this helps to all that was asking.   RK