today i made some first steps towards good cuts, after cutting and embossing inaudible noise for a
couple of months.
I had bought a machine which had no counterweight of any kind in place, so i had to figure one out
myself. I before that i was embossing at 230grs
I looked at pictures of similar machines that generally have the head mounted in a carrier-cage with
a spring providing variable relief.
However none of these head cages, even if i would manage to reproduce them with some 3d printed
parts, seemed very adaptable for this particular machine.
What was there on the machine, was a « mystery lever » at the back of the head ; push it and the
head would go up.
So i made a little guide with some springs, attached a little ball bearing to the end of the lever and
hey presto counter weight.
Although it yielded my best cut yet, there is one big issue with my system :
The two springs on either end don’t provide equal pressure to the head all along the guide and are hard to adjust evenly...
Maybe someone has an idea how to do this better ?
I figure the best way to fix this is to attach a single spring halfway on the path the wheel travels, but
i can’t find a way of attaching that without getting in the way of a bunch of moving parts…
Any ideas ?
I’d also be very interested if anyone knows how counterweight was originally provided on this type
of machine/how the mystery lever is supposed to be used...
