hi there,
i thought i would show you my homemade balancer i made a couple of days ago. here is some pics:
stickers on!
anyway i got a piece of 8mm stainless steel rod, an old losi hub and wheel nut, two ceramic bearings (any size as long as they have an 8mm internal diameter) and some wood (MDF) for the base and sides.
so i got the wheel hub and made some threads using a 4mm tap in each side normally where the pin would go through. i then got some grub screws and screwed then into the new threads. i then put the hub on the steel rod and tightened the grub screws. i then made the base using MDF and can be cut to any dimensions as long as it is big enough for the wheel and cut the triangles out of the sides for the bearings to fit into.
in total this had cost me £6 to make and that was for the ceramics.
what do you think? comments are welcome.
many thanks
lewis