Just an idea (or maybe as a potential web business).
If Hockey Pucks do well for vibration damping why not make a free-weight/puck "sandwitch" to go over the dec. axis shaft and act as the counter weight on a HD GEM? In effect suspend the free weight from touching the dec. shaft with 2 pucks on either side? There would have to be a long "shaft collar" that would go tightly through the center of each puck and the free weight would need to have clearance from the dec. shaft (no direct touching) and be attached to the pucks.
This would create a relatively "dead" (vibration wise) weight that could absorb vibrations from the rest of the mount. If two smaller weights were used on the GEM's dec. shaft you may even be able to "tune out" resonate vibrations from the rest of the mount by moving them into different positions while the total combination still balanced on the RA shaft.
Comments?
TM
If Hockey Pucks do well for vibration damping why not make a free-weight/puck "sandwitch" to go over the dec. axis shaft and act as the counter weight on a HD GEM? In effect suspend the free weight from touching the dec. shaft with 2 pucks on either side? There would have to be a long "shaft collar" that would go tightly through the center of each puck and the free weight would need to have clearance from the dec. shaft (no direct touching) and be attached to the pucks.
This would create a relatively "dead" (vibration wise) weight that could absorb vibrations from the rest of the mount. If two smaller weights were used on the GEM's dec. shaft you may even be able to "tune out" resonate vibrations from the rest of the mount by moving them into different positions while the total combination still balanced on the RA shaft.
Comments?
TM
Tom Mengel
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