Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
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Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
Going to balance my transmission drums and would like to see what you have used...
<o><o><o><o> Tim Rogers - South of the Adirondacks - Forum member since 2013 <o><o><o><o>
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Re: Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
That's what I have & use for any part that rotates - mine is a Sundstrand balancer.
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Re: Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
These are made from seamed pipe and I had to drill holes to balance them. I use 2 transmission shafts for the drake drum.
When did I do that?
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Re: Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
I borrowed a lathe at the juco to make these.
I cut the rod from a scrap axle shaft.
I cut the rod from a scrap axle shaft.
The inevitable often happens.
1915 Runabout
1923 Touring
1915 Runabout
1923 Touring
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Re: Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
Mine work like Steve's. One has two different size tapers, and is reversed to fit different bushes. I do not have a fancy factory made set of balancing wheels. I hand ground the back edge of two 14" hacksaw blades to make knife edges. These are bolted to a frame using the original blade mounting holes. When balancing, I set the frame up on the level, and the drums roll on the knife edges till the heavy spot is at the bottom.
The frame is tall enough that I can mount a flywheel assembly using two transmission shafts, and those shafts become the mandrel on which the assembly rotates.
Hope this helps those without the balancing wheel equipment.
Allan from down under.
The frame is tall enough that I can mount a flywheel assembly using two transmission shafts, and those shafts become the mandrel on which the assembly rotates.
Hope this helps those without the balancing wheel equipment.
Allan from down under.
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Re: Show Me Your Drum Balancing Mandrels!
I have not done drums, but for flywheels I too use the knife edge like Allan. I took a paper cutter blade that I cut in half and mounted to a frame I can level.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas!
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup