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Shaving RE-71's ??
Well I found a tire shop to shave ( true ) my flat spotted RE-71's.
What depth should shave them to ? Sure beats throwing them away.
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03-11-2003, 04:39 PM
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I've never heard of a place that would shave a used tire (dulls the blades). What sort of place is this?
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In Missoula there a Michlein recapper. Bakke Tire.
I stopped today and asked. They said yes, "they true tires". So explained that I flat spotted these in an A-X. Tires only have 2k. Only the 2 brothers that own the company. Do the trueing. We'll see what I come out with.
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R-compound DOT legal tires are usually shaved to 3-4/32nds. Any more than that and youll be pushing your wear limits to one or two track sessions...
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Thanks, Chris. I think I'll ask for 5-6/32nds. I think he said they could shave them to 6/32ths.
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Cary, why not measure the remaining tread at the flat spots and cut to that level? Any less cutting and you still have a flat spot. Any more cutting would be excessive.
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Picked them up. $60 all four, plus balanced.
But bad news. One of my beautiful Fuchs has a wowy in it. One of the venues we use for AX has a pretty has pretty big bump in it. Transistion from asphalt to concrete.  Maybe I wacked it too hard. But I'm thinking when we mounted the new tires, one of them had quite a bit more weight on it. But I can have them ( new tires ) trued each time to compenstate for the wheel. They also do on car balancing. To balance the tire to the rotors.
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