Dampener

[Squirrel]

Truely amazing, as a result of some research by my uncle we have been able to increase our speed rates from about 400mm/min to about 700mm/min. We are only using threaded rod and didn't really expect anything to fast.
All that was done to increase our speed was to make very cheap dampers and bolt them onto the end shafts of our stepper motors. Works very well.


Squirrel...

[Zoot]

Details ... Details ... Details!!!

Unfortunately I don't have an uncle, so can you please share the details ... perhaps even pictures?

Cheers

Alan

[twistedfuse]

I'm with alan, i do have an uncle but would love to see some photos and info.

Keep up the great work.
Daniel

[Squirrel]

I can't assist with photo's of our mods (as machine is at the uncles) but here is a link (if it works that is) with all the information we used.

http://www.solsylva.com/cnc/dampers.shtml

Hope this helps you guys out, it is good to give back what I have been receiving.

Squirrel

[twistedfuse]

Squirrel,

Thanks anyway mate. This thread got me looking at different dampeners so i did a bit of a search and found the following link:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32284

The deisgn seems pretty good and the results seem the same. Hoep this helps anyone else looking. Hopefully if i get a chance this week ill machine up a dampener and try it out for myself.

Daniel