Vibration Suppression Pads

Hi,

This may sound silly, but I saw an ad the other day and it got me thinking.

How would hockey pucks work as Vibration Suppression Pads?

Would they be too hard? I have never actually seen a real pad.

Thanks in advance,

John

I use Hockey pucks and they work well. I did modify mine though and it works well. I drilled a 3/8" deep hole with a 7/8" bit and added a 1/8" piece of Sorbathane, but if would work just as well to add silicone RTV by filling the depression almost to the top.
Total cost, $2 each for $6.

I've actually used the pork chops my ex used to make for dinner as a suitable replacement for hockey pucks; they were a bit too unyeilding for use as anti-vibration pads, though...

J.Adams

The commercial ones I've seen use some soft
mushy rubber sandwiched between harder
plastic. Hocky pucks are very hard --
seems like the wrong sort of rubber.
But some sandwich of hocky pucks and
silicone rubber or Sorbothane (soft and
mushy rubber) might be the ticket.

Something I found works well are these
Dr. Scholls gel insoles. They are
filled with some kind of sticky blue
rubbery goop. They are shoe-shaped but
you can cut them down to smaller shapes;
the rubbery goop mostly stays put.
A sandwich of that between hocky pucks might
work, too. Or if the tripod feet, etc.,
have a lot of surface area, just put it under
the feet.

It's the sorbothane that provides the vibration suppression. Put a thick sheet of sorbothane petween two hockey pucks and you will have a vibration suppression pad, or between two steel discs, or between two wood or hard plastic discs. The commercial version is between two nested plastic discs.