Thank you very much for sharing your experience. The video is concise, understandable and professional.

Went through 2 of the knock-offs…both of the heads were off balance and wobbly….be buying the Oregon

Thanks for the info

My knock off balancer was out of balance right out of the box, had to spend an hour carefully removing aluminum from the heavy side, finally it balanced in the end.

The head of the Knock-off needed to be balanced; it would self-rotate its heavy side to the 6 o'clock position. After measuring the weight of the imbalance, it was possible to add small washer "counterweights" to two of the magnet studs, on the lighter side of the head. After balancing, the head did not self-rotate from any starting position. MAG-1000 instructions on the Magna-Matic site describe the Calibration Test.

Can’t thank you enough for your amazing review and comparison.

If there’s a gold standard, I’d say it’s the original - MagnaMatic 1000.

Good old fashion thin nail works for me.

I have the Oregon balancer you showed, also have the Oregon 88-025 grinder. What's the tool you used to check the blade angle?

I'm on my daughter's KZfaq. About 4 years ago I had an 11 hp Briggs that the counterbalancer was extremely worn. It wasn't cost effective to replace. I found on KZfaq how guys were balancing single cylinder motorcycle engines that they were racing. You have to make a tool called a knife's edge. Anyway, about a year later I got to thinking. I spent some serious time making the knife's edge so why don't I use it to balance my mower blades. It is extremely sensitive. I'm not claiming that it's more sensitive than the balancer in the video. I had a brand new blade that was slighty out of balance. I didn't want to grind on a brand new blade so I took a 2 inch long piece of Gorilla tape and put it on the light side of the blade, but not at where the blade is sharp. Otherwise the grass would've peeled the tape off. That small piece of Gorilla tape balance my blade. What I have found out that some blades that I've balance aren't balanced when I flipped the blade over. In other words, if I balance a blade with the grass side to my right on the knife's edge it could be perfectly balanced, but when I recheck the balance without grinding the blade and now have the grass side of the blade to my left the blade is sometimes out of balance. What I have found out is that the center hole of the blade isn't exactly centered. The first blade that did this to me I measured the center hole to the edge of the blade and found a .010" difference from one edge to the other edge of the blade. That is extremely hard to balance, but it can be done. With the balancer in the video you only put the blade on one way so you never catch the off center blades. But all you have to do is balance your blade, and rotate it half a turn on the balancer and see if it rotates back to the previous position. If it stays put then it's balanced. If it goes back to the previous position then the blade is off centered which can still vibrate.

The Orgen is the best and I found out the hard way 😢😢😢 It’s a great tool and it’s right on the money ❤

I'm looking at your video and see that the back of the Oregon is painted. My "Oregon" arrived today form Amazon and my version wasn't painted. I'm thinking someone bought both and retuned the cheaper one in the box.

Tecomec manufacturers the balancer for Oregon, $75.00 and comes from Italy.

Well done, Boss!

where did you get the angle gauge at ?

Spent the extra money for the Oregon and it isn't perfect either. It's close enough but If you need perfection get the gold magnamatic 1000.

Where oregon one made ?ITALY

do u have a link of the knockoff one u purchased?

Just as I suspected and had ordered a $49 knock off from amazon. Thanks

Oregan does not make their balancer, Telemco does, $65

I bought the knock off. Absolute JUNK! The balancer wasn't balanced. It would self rotate w/o a blade. Repositioning the blade on the balancer yielded a different state of balance each time. There is no practical method to balance the balancer. I was lucky: I got my $ back.

I'm a bit confused: since NONE of the balancers give any info on how much metal must be removed, really the only question is whether a balanced blade comes in at "0 degrees", correct? SO: why bother with the fancy magnets and heavy mount? From a physics perspective, the tiny lightweight cone ought to work just as well if not better to show me if my blade is actually balanced or not. I can use the same digital angle gauge to see how far off zero I am :) (Why better: the small/light cone adds no mass to the setup, so I am truly measuring the balance of JUST the blade.)

There are a number of bad knockoffs out there. Without a link to the good knockoff, this video is not as useful as it could be. Right now, I have two riding mowers and 3 push mowers, plus spare blades, for a total of 16 blades. I think I can justify the cost of the Oregon.