Grinding wheel balancer

[gunner312]

I'm looking for plans for a grinding wheel balancer. I seem to remember seeing plans in HSM or one of the mags but can't seem to find them. Help? On ennay they seem to be made of pure gold.

 

[timo_gross]

Yes it is quite expensive stuff, for some reason.

What type of balancer are you looking for?

or

or

or a dynamic balancing machine?

• two large enough parallels drilled and tapped four holes on them.
• Cross drilled ground round rods.
• level machine with water level to ensure magnet is horizontal
• put parallels on magnet
• balance wheel.

Works for me, was cheap, maybe not the most accurate way. I doubt it is much worse than the example on the left.
The long term plan was to mount the paralles on some base with three leveling feet, to get something similar to the left picture. Nothing as long lasting as temporary fixes .

Greetings Timo

 

[gunner312]

It looks like any of those would do as well as any other one. I have time and materials so even the most primitive would work for me. Thanks. Tried the German website but couldn't get in. (My German is not very good anymore in spite of living there for six years in the Army.)

 

[ajoeiam]

It looks like any of those would do as well as any other one. I have time and materials so even the most primitive would work for me. Thanks. Tried the German website but couldn't get in. (My German is not very good anymore in spite of living there for six years in the Army.)

Would you please share the websites you were perusing?

 

[timo_gross]

Would you please share the websites you were perusing?

Hello,
it is from a German Forum. They do not allow reading without beeing logged in. So I removed the original link from my first post.
www.cncecke.de

If you register there you can find the thread with the search term: "Wuchtwaage"

Greetings Timo

 

[Stuart Walker]

Hello
Keith Johnson wrote an article in Model Engineers Workshop, published September 2011 entitled "Balancing Grinding Wheels". Alternatively, it would be worth a look at the "Oneway balancing system" as demonstrated on this video - it's a commercial system, but if you a look at the website you'll find some exploded drawings that should enable you to make your own.
All the best
Stuart

 

[ajoeiam]

Guess I have some work ahead - - - - argh - - - so many projects and so little time!!!

Thanks guys!!!