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Re: Balancing a Pneumatic wheel

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Based on reports I've seen here, some frisbee shooters are spinning their wheels at 6000 RPM or higher. 5000 RPM seems common. Whether or not you use wheel weights, if you're running a wheel at several thousand RPM, you'd better have an effective containment system to protect the outside world in case something spontaneously disassembles itself.
I believe those are the smaller wheels, not the pneumatic. If someone is spinning that pneumatic wheel over 4,000 RPM then the are lucky they still have a wheel.