new saw, first hurdle

[gilljc]

So, got the new saw home, and unpacked, it weighs a ton!!!
ran it on living room floor, looking good staggered out to shed, blimey didn't realise how narrow my doorways were.....onto workbench, switch on and loads of vibration!!! stuff bouncing about all over the place back into kitchen and onto worktop, better now, can balance 5p on it and it (the 5p) turns but doesn't fall over.
My workshop is a decent quality wooden shed, with wooden floor and the workbench is a home bodge affair made of inch thick mdf screwed onto supports in floor and walls of shed.
Will I have to rebuild my workbench from scratch, does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Have no problem with the smaller, lighter hegner, could it just be the weight? could I get away with just replacing mdf with piece of kitchen worktop? kitchen cabinet unit?
Help!!!

 

[Chippygeoff]

So pleased for you Gill, I bet your like a kid with a new toy. I feel the problem you are facing is the wooden floor of the shed, it's not absorbing the vibration. I know of people who have had the same problem and one guy ended up cutting out a small section of his wooden floor and filling it with concrete and that solved the problem. I feel another way would be to place your saw bench onto paving slabs and if possible bolt the bench to the slabs. Your bench top sounds fine and I don't think making it thicker will solve the problem.

 

[Claymore]

I read a post on another forum and they built a box around their scrollsaw stand and filled it with sand and it solved the problem so it might work for yours?

 

[Walney Col]

First thing first... a slice of exercise foam between the saw and the bench to isolate the vibrations from the woodwork is the easiest thing to try.

 

[martinka]

Did you bolt it down, Gill? If not, try clamping it down and see if that cures it.

 

[Bryan Bennett]

Hi Gill pleased to hear of :ho2 visit,I hope you get the problem solved quick.

Bryan

 

[gilljc]

thanks all have tried foam have tried bolting it down. Had an engineer friend in looking at it today, he reckons first step is to beef up the back uprights of my bench to start with. Will get onto it after Christmas , if I need to can cut holes for uprights into floor and put legs of bench directly onto paving slabs below
Always knew an upgrade of my bodgy bench was overdue.....

 

[powertools]

I'm sorry but I cannot get my head round why the most expensive scrollsaw in the world needs to be fixed to the floor or a paving slab.

 

[scrimper]

You could do worse than try it on a metal stand, (I don't mean buying the Hegner one it's too expensive) you could knock one up out of some old Dexion or other angle iron. Reason that I mention it is that when I bought my Hegner in 1999 I was chatting to Roger Buse who at that time was the very helpful owner of Hegner UK and when we discussed the stand he advised that the reason saws are better on a metal stand than a wood one are due to the frequency of oscillations the metal stands tended to absorb them unlike wood which exaggerated the vibration.

I have to say though that my Hegner has very little vibration even when I first bought it and tried it unbolted on the bench, I would have thought the one you describe with a cast iron table would be less likely to vibrate than a lighter on with an alloy table?