|
Posted by Andrew Mawson on September 9, 2006, 7:41 am
Please log in for more thread options
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:44:04 +0200, muellernick@gmx.de (Nick Müller)
> wrote:
>
> >
> >> I am installing a big Transwave rotary phase converter and am
> >> considering sitting it on a rubber / foam / or polystrene pad to
> >> isolate the vibration from the building. It weighs 150 kgs.
Anyone any
> >> experience in doing this sort of thing? (I currently have a much
> >> smaller one bolted to the common workshop / house wall and can
hear
> >> it all over the house!)
> >
> >Silent blocks. They are rubber with a metal plate vulcanized at
each
> >end. Those plates do have a screw on them for fixing.
> >Often seen on exhaust systems of cars, but bigger ones are
available.
> >
> >
> >> BTW before this beauty fell into my lap ...
> >
> >Outsch! 150 kg
> >
>
> Hope the trinket set survived Andrew ?
> --
> Regards,
>
> John Stevenson
Well it was touch and go sliding it up a plank onto my little electric
truck to get it to the bottom of the garden ! Definately a toetector
job. Piece of cake getting it off with my 1 ton block & tackle in the
foundry.
AWEM
|
> considering sitting it on a rubber / foam / or polystrene pad to
> isolate the vibration from the building. It weighs 150 kgs. Anyone any
> experience in doing this sort of thing? (I currently have a much
> smaller one bolted to the common workshop / house wall and can hear
> it all over the house!)