Re: trailer tires and rims

[Pete]

With these smaller tires they can be DIY static balanced with a cheap target bubble level placed at the center of the rim (on a flat piece across the hole) then tire and rim placed in a tub of water and move weights around the rim edge to center the bubble in he cross hairs. Done it many times but not with these 8" trailer tires that didn’t need it. Before dynamic balancing machines were the norm the small tire shops had a static balance machine that had a target level bubble and that was it for balance. Worked pretty good in most cases, they of course had no idea how much weight to put on each side of the rim like dynamic balance machine would indicate so the weights needed were split in 50/50 on each side at same location as an approximation to keep the dynamic balance unchanged assuming it was OK or so they thought ❗