[TheForge] Balancing act

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Wed Jul 15 16:54:52 EDT 2009


You are correct,,,my screw up...pf

Lynn and Susan Lang wrote:
> Hello
> As described that means that the bottom is the heavier and that the top
> is the lighter, then why would you remove more from the lighter side?
> 
> lynn
> 
> 
> 
>> The shade tree approach would be to suspend the shafted assembly
> between 
>> 2 sharp, hardened points in the centering holes on the shaft ends, in a
> 
>> lathe. Then give it  some whirls and mark the bottom points when it 
>> stops moving. Shave off metal opposite the marks and repeat till crazy 
>> and the marks distribute randomly.
>> But i doubt that'll get you to 10,000 RPM.
> 
> 
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