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Al Extrusion Vibration Damping

Posted by Jim Colley
on 2005-06-14 15:52:47 UTC
Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on how to increase the vibration damping
characteristics of aluminum framing products.

I had thought about filling the voids in the extrusion with sand and capping the ends.

Another idea was to fill the void with small lead pellets such as lead shot. A friend had the
idea of heating the extrusion just enough to melt the lead together, but I don't know if the
melting point of lead would cause a loss of heat treatment to the framing.

Any ideas or thoughts? I really like the flexibility of this product in machine design, but I fear
when I finish building my mill I will have horrible chatter.

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Jim Colley 2005-06-14 15:52:47 UTC Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Andrey Lipavsky 2005-06-14 16:01:13 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Codesuidae 2005-06-14 16:06:44 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping jkbrennan 2005-06-14 16:29:24 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Ron Kline 2005-06-14 19:00:26 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping jkbrennan 2005-06-14 19:19:15 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping turbulatordude 2005-06-15 06:33:27 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Luc Frigon 2005-06-15 14:29:53 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Luc Frigon 2005-06-15 14:30:39 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Al Extrusion Vibration Damping David Bloomfield 2005-06-15 18:58:17 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Robb Greathouse 2005-06-15 21:15:49 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Rob Sarten 2005-06-16 07:52:11 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping David Bloomfield 2005-06-16 08:01:41 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping David Bloomfield 2005-06-16 08:03:54 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping jkbrennan 2005-06-16 09:14:08 UTC [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping yahoo@h... 2005-06-16 10:59:14 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping bank haam 2005-06-16 11:13:16 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Roger Hampson 2005-06-16 11:55:24 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Alex Holden 2005-06-16 12:03:18 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Alex Holden 2005-06-16 12:09:50 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping lcdpublishing 2005-06-16 12:29:03 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping David Bloomfield 2005-06-16 12:32:19 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Roger Hampson 2005-06-16 14:00:47 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Dave Shiels 2005-06-16 14:07:12 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping turbulatordude 2005-06-16 14:16:06 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Codesuidae 2005-06-16 15:34:52 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Jim Colley 2005-06-16 17:05:24 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping KM6VV 2005-06-16 17:52:26 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping jymmm 2005-06-17 09:35:37 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Rob Sarten 2005-06-17 13:48:49 UTC Re: Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Jim Colley 2005-06-17 17:54:50 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Jon Elson 2005-06-17 20:36:47 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Tom Hubin 2005-06-17 22:45:07 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping Fred Howe 2005-07-08 21:16:10 UTC Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping r@s... 2005-07-09 06:21:07 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Al Extrusion Vibration Damping