Balancing flywheels

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neil_1821

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Hi everyone,

I've been searching the internet and reading some articles as i'm looking at how to balance my hoglet flywheel, I find it very strange that in the write up it says to only use one piston and wrist pin rath than both but I've been having a play around with it and it seems fairly well balanced.

I'm a little confused about where it says to drill lightening holes in order for the vibrations to be forwards and backwards as opposed to up and down. How can you check for this? :confused:

Also any advice on the best way to do it would be great. I'm currently using 2 tall pieces of metal to rest the crankshaft pins on due to the large size of each flywheel
 
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You could go over to lister engine forum,, they have a lot of info on balancing flywheels,, just use search. hope helps
 
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