I cut them out of a piece of particle board and mounted in the same holes as the original pieces. And what an improvement that was, all vibrations just disappeared.
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| The mounted Dremel. |
Monday, November 28, 2011
The Dremel
Some time has passed since last blog update, so what's happened? Well, I have replaced the original low quality spindle, with a Dremel. Which of course required some new mounting parts.
I cut them out of a piece of particle board and mounted in the same holes as the original pieces. And what an improvement that was, all vibrations just disappeared.
But then I discovered that the spindle moved a little bit in the Y-direction, when the Z-motor changed direction and pulled the spindle upwards. After some mail correspondence with tech.support, we concluded that it was caused by a small play between the plastic bearings and the Z-axis bearing support frames. So they sent me some Loctite 480. Which I applied between the bearings and the frame. Without disassemble anything (as instructed), and that did solve the problem.
I cut them out of a piece of particle board and mounted in the same holes as the original pieces. And what an improvement that was, all vibrations just disappeared.
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That looks great! Do you have measurements for the spindle mount that you made? I'd like to switch out my spindle with a dremel as well but am not sure about how to go about doing the measurements.
ReplyDeleteDid you make a new spindle mount according to my drawings?
DeleteThanks, I just added a new blog post with the drawing.
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