I’m sittin’ on your side of the fence Alvin, when something sounds to good to be true
then it’s probably not! I still say if these worked all that well then they would have put
Hunter, Coats, John Bean, FMC, Allstates, Hoffman, Sun, Atlas, well, the list does go on
and on, and the beads would have put them out of business long ago.
It’s no small outlay to fill up four pickup truck tires with these things and I’m not sure if I
would want to go thru the expense of pulling off the balancing weights from my tires,
inserting the beads in my good tires and then having to dismount all four tires to clean
them out, remounting and rebalancing the set if it turned out to be just black magic.
I’ve heard it voiced a couple of times the they aren’t affective for stop and go driving.
That makes now sense to me because they seem to take aim at the motorcycle community
and being a rider myself, I can assure you the we do plenty of stop and go driving as do
the truckers. The pop bottle demo with the beads in it is not spinning all that fast and they
claim that it smooth’s out with in a few turns of the drill. In fact I would give it a try if I
had some beads, I was gonna try it using some Daisy BB’s that I had here but after a week
of looking I still can’t find the box with my Red Rider BB gun in it.
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/140778245/large So if they indeed did work as advertised they would have to even out the balance within a
few turns of the wheel or your bike or semi-cab would be jumping all over place from one
red light to the next.
I might just give them a try on one wheel just to test out the claim, but I certainly
wouldn’t go all the way unless the experiment was a rousing success.
Tubes have been mentioned. If,,,,,, they did work in a tubeless tire I don’t see any reason
why they wouldn’t work in a tube as long as you were using the proper sized tube for the
wheel and tire and there were no folds in the tube.
My thoughts about throwing the whole bag in the tire… The reason these are supposed to
work is that they are free to roll around inside the tire and seek the light spot. A plastic
bag left inside would not be free to do that and would in all likely hood prevent the
spheres from rolling to where it wanted to go. So it doesn’t seem logical to me to leave
anything inside the tire other than the Dyna-Beads.
The valve stem insertion tool that comes with the bead seems like a reasonable way to
add them to a mounted tire. I don’t see why there would be a problem with that, it’s no
different than tuning an hour-glass upside down.
Still, this has been an interesting discussion and we could use more of that around here as
things have been pretty slow lately.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
