THAT “SHIMMYING”
CARE REQUIRED ON TYRE RIMS The “shimmying" of a tyre is sometimes due to carelessness in the way the rim is placed on the wheel. Care must be exercised to have the rim and' the tyre true on the wheel, for if the rim is placed on the wheel so as to be out of true the tyre will wear quickly. The way to put on a rim is as follows: First scrape with a file or sandpaper all rust from the rim and felloe band; then turn the wheel so that the valve stem is on top; then lift che top of the rim on to the wheel, inserting the valve stem in its hole, and when satisfied that the lug near the valve stem and on the inside of the rim will fall into its hole on the felloe “slam on” the bottom of the rim. Next put on the wedge ring (if that type of ring) and screw on all of the lugs by hand. Then with a too! turn one of the bolts until a gentle pressure is required, then go to the one opposite it, then again across, after which go around the rim a number of times, giving each nut a half turn until all are tight.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 7
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