JonH Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Greetings all! Just retired a couple weeks ago. Was gifted a 1994 Hegner Multimax-22V five or six years ago. Had hoped to get it up and running (and figured out) in time for some Christmas gifts. I didn't do enough research before hand and built a nice wooden stand for it. The stand looked and worked great with the Hegner at rest, but put power to it and it was walking all over the place. Replaced the casters with 1.5" of laminated MDF that would be screwed down to the concrete garage floor, and triple reinforced all of the half-inch birch plywood. That stand is much sturdier now, and easily 100 pounds or so. After screwing it down to the concrete floor there is no vibration of any part of the tool except for the table, which is a problem. I can use it effectively at 1500rpm with the table vibrating very little. Still need to figure out how to dampen it further. The table tilt pivot points are secured so not sure what else I can do. The vibrations are really bad 800-1200rpm and 1600+rpm. Any suggestions? ChelCass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Welcome to the Village, Jon! I don't have any suggestions for your issue but I'm sure you will get a lot of great replies soon. JonH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 enjoy your new saw JonH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny Knappen Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Welcome to the Village forum from Tennessee. You might post your question in the General Scroll Sawing Section to get a better response. JonH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Yes, welcome, and I agree with what Danny posted, I'm sure you'll get plenty of suggestions there on how to get your saw to vibrate less. Chris JonH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Welcome to the best scroll saw forum on the internet. Do not believe everything I suggest. No body else does,,, but I will give my opinion... anyway. JonH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrolling Steve Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Welcome to the Village! JonH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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