"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Pete Keillor" wrote in message

Any suggestions on how to balance this for a hobbyist? ...
Pete Keillor

[Ed]

One-plane (static) balancing is generally considered plenty for this
type of job:

http://www.mpta.org/MPTA%20B2c%202011.pdf

(page 4)

That's just a knife-blade job, as I described. Make sure the knife
blades are DEAD level. The back sides of two hacksaw blades should
be plenty sensitive. Just stroke them with a stone or some wet-dry
to make sure they're smooth.

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Ed Huntress

Yeah, go with that. For a quick check maybe you could roll the shaft
on two parallels on the mill table, shimmed as level as you care to.

The only difficult part of making a static balancer is drilling an
accurately centered conical recess that doesn't have a small flat in
the center. A split-point drill might work.
-jsw