a device for compensating a torque produced on a movable axle in a machine tool or production machine by a gyrostatic effect includes a rotating useful machine system attached to the movable axle and producing a useful angular momentum , and a rotating machine counter - system attached to the axle and producing a counter angular momentum . the magnitude of the counter angular momentum is substantially identical to the magnitude of the useful angular momentum . the useful torque produced by a movement of the rotating useful machine system through a temporal change of the useful angular momentum is at least partially compensated by a counter - torque produced by a temporal change of the counter angular momentum . this arrangement represents a simple device for compensating a torque produced by the gyrostatic effect on a movable axle of machine tolls and production machines .