Dampener Disks Eliminate Vibration

Forrest Manufacturing’s dampener disks are the best solution for reducing noise and eliminating motor and blade vibration in most table, panel and radial arm saws.

Designed to be mounted next to the saw blade on a saw’s arbor or shaft, a dampener disk holds the saw blade rigid so that vibrations are not transmitted to the rim of the teeth. The result is a better cut, a truer running blade and significantly less whistling noise.

Forrest Manufacturing’s dampener disks are precision ground from the same steel as its saw blades. Also, like Forrest’s blades, dampener disks are straightened by hand to ensure flatness and to keep side-to-side wobble to within .001 inch. The dampener disk is mounted between the saw blade and washer and nut to eliminate blade vibration.

Vibration originates in the saw mechanism rather than the saw blade. Motors may not be perfectly balanced and belt drives, running on pulleys from a motor arbor to a saw blade arbor, may not be uniformly thick. Either situation can create vibrations in the arbor that make the saw blade vibrate sympathetically as it spins.

It was Jim Forrest, Founder and President of Forrest Manufacturing, who developed the concept of mounting a disk on a saw’s arbor to dampen vibration.

Only one disk dampener is necessary because of the physics of how it works and using one disk eliminates the inconvenience of having to readjust the fence.

The disk dampeners are made in diameters ranging from 4” to 10”. Bores are available in 5/8” or 1” sizes but can be custom made to fit almost any table, panel, or radial arm saws.

For more information, contact Jay Forrest, Forrest Manufacturing Company, 457 River Road, Clifton, NJ 07014, 973-473-5236, Web: www.forrestblades.com.