Thanks: 0
Likes: 0
Needs Pictures: 0
Picture(s) thanks: 0
Results 1 to 5 of 5
Thread: Help for a proxxon
-
19th May 2007, 11:37 PM #1
Super Moderator
- Join Date
- Jan 2004
- Location
- Mackay Qld
- Posts
- 3,466
Help for a proxxon
A few posts down there is a comment about not buying a Proxxon scroller because of the vibration excetera.
That does not help help my mate who has one.He is a retiree and does not have have big disposable income to throw about.
Can anybody suggest modification's we may be able to make to the unit to tame it slightly .That is other than soak it in deep water.
My mates a very talented machinist with access to lathe and miller machine so if it is possible he could probably do it.
What makes the thing vibrate so much,the arm design ? .
We would value inputs from people who know about such things.
thanks
Grahame
-
19th May 2007 11:37 PM # ADSGoogle Adsense Advertisement
- Join Date
- Always
- Location
- Advertising world
- Posts
- Many
-
20th May 2007, 12:08 AM #2
Super Moderator
Dodgy brother
- Join Date
- May 2004
- Location
- Pakenham, outer Melb SE suburb, Vic
- Age
- 54
- Posts
- 4,158
Grahame, the Delta saw I have vibrated less after greasing the arm pivots.
Bolt the saw down to a solid heavy base.
Try Lignum's separate table idea here.
Cheers...................Sean
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
-
20th May 2007, 11:53 AM #3
Why is it so?
- Join Date
- May 2002
- Location
- in the outer reaches of Sth Oz
- Age
- 75
- Posts
- 1,604
Try putting a sheet of convayer belt rubber between the saw and the table before bolting it down. Worked for the old GMC
PeteWhat this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
-
21st May 2007, 06:40 PM #4
Wood - Hunter/Gatherer
- Join Date
- Jul 2005
- Location
- Brisbane
- Age
- 64
- Posts
- 1,337
Possibly even using the rubbers from the top of a car shock absorber on the bolt between the saw and the bench. Using a very heavy bench - adding weight to it if you have too.
Originally Posted by fxst
Without getting too scientific you have two lines of thought one is to lubricate the machine and make it run as smoothly as possible and secondly to dampen the vibration whilst securing it to a solid heavy base.
Trying to change the mechanics of the machine would be adventurous.Cheers
TEEJAY
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"
(Man was born to hunt and kill)
-
21st May 2007, 10:39 PM #5
SENIOR MEMBER
- Join Date
- Dec 2004
- Location
- Moonta Bay in the Copper Triangle, S. Australia
- Posts
- 822
I have a kind mate who made me a steel table from plate metal about 1/8" thick. He put those rubber feet with a screw through the middle of them on, for the four feet. My GMC has never moved at all, and it's been there in the same place (on concrete) for years.
Buzza.
"All those who believe in psycho kinesis . . . raise my hand".
Reply With Quote
Similar Threads
-
Proxxon scroll saws
By ryanclan in forum SCROLLERS FORUMReplies: 1Last Post: 18th September 2006, 01:44 PM -
Milling Machine vs Drill Press
By Mindabout in forum METALWORK FORUMReplies: 15Last Post: 8th June 2006, 10:41 PM
