Control weighing

Racing wheel rims for Touring cars, Sports cars and Formula-1 cars

 
Wheels (wheel rims) made by BBS are running from one success to the next at all racing tracks of the world. Nowhere else the quality of BBS could be more impressively proved than in motor sport. The partners of BBS in motor sports are represented in almost all racing series.

Formula-1 wheel rims, for instance, are manufactured of forged magnesium, thus making each racing car lighter by 4 kilogram. The blanks are processed in special machines, see Fig. 1, afterwards they all are checked for their conformance with the fixed weight at a set of ITC-1 Compact scales [1] (see Fig. 2), because there are minimum weights laid down for some racing series.

Fig. 1: Special machine for processing the blanks into wheel rims

Fig. 2: Check of the weight of the wheels rims for their conformance with the admissible tolerances by means of tripod, scales and data output to printer or EDP

Then the wheel rims are varnished, and all of them are weighed. The final weight of the wheel rims, that has been agreed upon with the customers, shall be exact. Wheel rims having inadmissible differences are immediately improved, only then they reach the stage of delivery. The scales used here, see Fig. 3, correspond to the scales in production. It is equipped with a data output, too, to be connected to a printer or EDP.

Fig. 3: Control scales in the varnishing workshop

Fig. 4: the BBS parent plant in Schiltach (Black Forest)

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