I have a bubble balancer I bought on ebay for $12. I use it all the time.
A few years ago, there was a Nebraska Tire store come into town. They're a small chain of 6 or 8 stores. They had good deals on tires, but I was never impressed with their balancing, even though they had a fancy computerized balancer. After I got this bubble balancer, I took a couple of wheels with tires mounted to them and had them balance them. When I got back to my shop, I put them on my bubble balancer without ever mounting them on whatever vehicle they went on and they both tilted to one side on the bubble balancer.
I don't know if it was their machine or the operator, but the store only lasted a couple of years and I always wondered if too many other people had problems with their balancing.
Actually, I think tires nowadays are better made and don't require the balancing they used to, maybe just 20 years ago. Of the last set of tires I put on my wife's Chrysler minivan, two of the four "pinwheeled" the bubble on the balancer without any weights, and the other two were inside the ring but took only a half ounce or so to center it exactly.
There are a few tricks to a bubble balancer, though. If you need one ounce of weight, instead of one one ounce weight, you might want to use two half ounce weights a few inches apart, etc.
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