Anybody use Dyna Beads?

bigreen505

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Never used Dynabeads but a little experience with airsoft pellets. Using them right now and they are absolutely worthless. Ran them a few months ago and they were pretty great. Same set of tires. The difference? About an ounce. I did some reading and it seemed like a lot of people were reporting similar problems to what I was experiencing when they had too many beads in the tires. So I went from 8oz. per tire to 7oz. per tire. From decent to horrible.

What have I learned from all this? Bead balance is more of a science that just dumping beads in a tire and hoping for the best. I think the best way is to get your tires balanced and replace the wheel weights with an equal weight of beads. Second, density matter. I am running the .2g pellets and I just don't think they are dense enough to get the job done -- it takes too many pellets for the weight required so they are too spread out in the tire.

Either they don't work below about 55 mph or my wobble is worst at about 45 mph, and I'm really not sure which.

I will say that the tires with 8oz. per tire balance out better at freeway speeds better than any traditional wheel weight balance (road force or otherwise) I have had. It is eerily smooth. I desperately need new tires and will likely go back to wheel weights then, despite the fact that 90 percent of my driving is on the highway. Airsoft pellets are too light and dynabeads are not any less expensive than lifetime balancing.
 

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