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Balancing Rotors vs. Balancing Reciprocating Bodies

08/10/2009 11:23 PM

how balancing of reciprocating bodies similar/different from balancing of rotors

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Re: how balancing of reciprocating bodies similar/different from balancing of rotors

08/11/2009 3:11 AM

The counterweight on the crankshaft is large for the former, and may be absent in the latter. Indeed, the latter will probably have no crankshaft at all.

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