OK guys-n-gals, I have this Schildmeier Seal Line wheel/tire balancer probably late 50's early 60's vintage. How does this thing work? it spins, it sparks, what the heck does it all mean? "School me" You wouldn't have a copy the operating instructions would ya????? Thats a Dunlop Mga wheel on machine, I turned an adapter for english knockoff style hubs, like Brown & Gammons recomends. Thanks for your help! tt
if iam not mistaken it is real easy to use first do the static wieght by letting the wheel drop to the bottom and then moving it up to9 oclock get it so that the wheel can be placed any where and it stays put after that pull the handle back and put your finger on the nob it should be black and if the tire is in balance it wont vibrate if it is out u then have to dynamic balance the wheel one wight on the inside and one on the out side the wieghts have to be of the same wieght it is a great balancer and they are balanced to about 140.mph use the clock method to apply wieghts
once u got good on this machine u loved it so much it was one of the best i had ever used when i worked for UNIROYAL TIRE CENTERS IN 1970
Thanks for the reply (doaaaah i missed it yesterday). I guess what I'm having a hard time with is the out of balance will always ends up on the bottom? That's where the weights go? The shaft runs true, I've been using a dial indicator to check run-out and repairing some dings. I will be bolting it down, it has been sitting in a corner here for 10 yrs at least. Haven't thought about this before, will it do motorcycle wheels? Damn I can't remember shaft size??? Thanks again for the help! tt
take the tire from the 12oclock position and move it to the 9 oclock position the tire will move up to the 12oclock position on its own thats how u judge the amount of static wieght u put on u can put the wieght on the inside genraly one wieght a good starting point is about 1 to 1.5 oz some too lots like 3 oz then spin it up and ad equal amounts of wieghts one inside one outside oppeset to each other
OldCoot Do you still have that old new instruction manual? I just got one of those tire balancers and i think that the preload or tension on the main shift springs need to be set a little stiffer/tighter.
Awesome, can you load the pdf.. on this site? or can send to my g mail. I'll try to post some pics I took.
pic's And I have recently inherited a tire balancer from my dad. This is the same machine I used to use all the time when I was growing up and back then it would work really good until one day the old man made an attempt to make the machine more sensitive by adjusting the spring tension on the main shaft. At least that’s what he said he did, back 20 years ago. Everything works, its just that the sparks on the worm gear are not in a close group. Do any of you have a manual or know of a link to a good site? Please share your knowledge and/or experience, any help will be appreciated. Schildmeier Seal Line Electric Static Dynamic Balancer Manufactured by HC Schildmeier CO. Indianapolis, Indiana USA On the inside of the shaft there are five set screws to adjust the spring tension. The outer side has two. I was thinking of putting a torque wrench on the set screw to get a torque setting and then making sure they are all the same. Then I can try more or less tension on the springs. What do you think or what would you do? I am anticipating that once i mass with the set screws I'll have to remove them and clean up the treads.
Well Guys, I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents - if anyone is interested. My Dad performed the annual audits for Schildmeier, and set me up to work for Hank as a summer job in '66. Hank Schildmeier had a general purpose machine shop producing a continuous variety of commercial and industrial parts for builders and manufacturers, and he had one proprietary product - wheel balancers. That job was quite an education for a 16yo kid. Hank introduced me to Al (balancer shop manager - short, with a limp, a smile, and a cigar stub), who put me to work grinding welds - nastiest job in the place. Over the summer, I performed every task building those balancers, from cutting and welding the frames, to forming and painting the sheet metal, to assembly and wiring, down to stamping the serial number plates. I gained a cursory knowledge of how to run pretty much every machine in the shop, for which I will be ever grateful to Hank! Although my memory is a bit fuzzy from 60 years ago, my recollection is that we produced around one balancer per day, so I suspect the actual output was around 300 per year. I do remember that we produced 4 machines that went to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the race cars, and those were souped up to allow the wheels to be balanced at 200 mph - unheard of at the time. For those who managed to find one, I hope you enjoy owning one of these great machines as much as I enjoyed helping to produce them!
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