How Does This Antique Wheel Balancer Work? 

I think I did a pretty bad job at explaining or showing what I found out in this video. I will make short video soon about it... a bit more to the case... But what I figure this machine does is this: Firstly you do the static balance.. here the machine is just a regular bubble balancer. Then you pull the handle at set the machine to Dynamic. When this is done the wheel can move from side to side but should not do that since its static balanced. The disc under the wheel is free to move also (with quite a bit of resistance) When I spin the tire and push the handle with the bearings again this plate the plate will be completely horizontal and parallel with the floor and the static balanced wheel but when the wheel is spinning the wheel will no longer be parallel with the floor IF its out of balance.. When the wheel is stopped the disc is now a copy of the spinning wheel and the wheel is back to being parallel with the floor. I can then measure the plate to find out where the wheel is heavy. Hope it makes a little more sense...

Didn't understand a thing. Brilliant!

This machine is breaking my brain! The tire is set to wobble and you spin it. You then stabilise it as it spins, so it finds it's axis. You then stop the tire and connect the wobble meter, but by doing that, you wobble the tire, so any level it found whilst spinning is completely gone and it just tilts whatever way you tilted it. And then it shows consistent results, but how?! Old machinery is deceptively simple and usually makes no sense in how it operates, but it does. I'm amazed and confused in equal measures.

This makes NO sense to me. Love it 😂

1. You are doing a great job.

The new 'weighting game'. 😁

Aaah now I want such a machine

I don't need an older balancer but I want one since seeing your other one. I have a hand spin electronic Balco/Snap-On machine. I don't have the nut-centric attachments so if I found an old machine with nut-centric abilities I'd buy it.

I love how neither you nor the audience knows what is going to happen next

Fin video, takk😊

As you are dealing with the high low points on the disk, i do not think you have to spin the tyre so much.

Thanks

3:00 I have a question, as always... Is your garage floor perfectly flat?

I think a level machine is critical. I would like to try on my wheels. They cause the car to shake over 100kph. I tried other wheels and this doors not happen. What do you think? 07 Volvo V70

People only say it's too hard because they can't just push a button and stand around doing nothing while the machine does all the work, having to use their grey matter is a stretch these days unfortunately... :\

Well done Sherlock Holmes. Epic.

I watched...... I don't see the point in spinning the wheel...stabilizing it in a level position until it stops and then taking a reading....It appears that the spinning is not needed as you wait for it to stop. and you have levelled out any "wobble" before it stops with the Stabilizer part??? I must be missing some thing?

I don't think that you are measuring dynamic balance at all. After spinning the wheel and stopping it you are just measuring static balance again, but using the micrometer rather than the bubble as the measuring instrument. You can only measure dynamic balance while the wheel is actually spinning. The only way I can see this working is that you spin the wheel slowly, maybe 2 revolutions per second, stabilise it with the jockey wheels, then simultaneously watch the micrometer and mark on the tyre while the wheel is still spinning to see where the mark is when the micrometer is at maximum (or minimum) deflection. Dynamic balance can only be tested when static balance is correct. Adding a nut to the top of the rim has upset the static balance, so the dynamic balance is invalid. To test the dynamic balancing ability, add a weight to the inside of the rim and an equal wight to the outside, on the opposite side of the wheel, this will compensate the static balance, but ruin the dynamic balance.

Kaere Seppo, jeg forstod intet, men det var, som om jeg saa Gyro Gearlös paa arbejde.😂

You enjoyed that so did l

I didn't really get the concept of the plate that you are stabilizing. So I had to rewatch the video. It makes sense now, I think you're probably onto something with the approach you're using now! I'm just amazed that the gauge does not have a small wheel or ball like a ball pen at the end - surely it cannot be correct that a precision instrument should drag on a steel flange like that? Maybe it is, I'm just a bit puzzled. Great video!

I don't get this at all...

I don't understand anything, and I usually do so it must be your fault by logical termination. Right?

got bored at 3:00 I'll just figure all the mackine does is spin the tire and balancing is completely up to the human :-\...... dont see how, considering the new ones have sensors to measure the force on the rim when its spinning.... this looks more like a tester to see if the wheel is straight or warped...... oh ps dont say how it works then go on for a hour about the story how you got it or something..... it puts ppl off... waiting to see what it as actually does..