Wood router to Spindle

[DanielW]

I have two oldish B&D wood routers about 500w mark,now they are noisyish and I was pondering would I lessen the noise if I was to take away the plastics and house the motor in a square aluminium casing with a thickness walls of 15mm to 20mm do you reckon this will reduce the noise level?

Basically I don't use them anymore,one new and other secondhand and so with me building a CNC I thought of using em for the spindle on CNC but as they're at the moment do emit a bit of noise.

They're are of the straight body type as in the link,once the base has been unbolted they're just like a hand held dremmel drill but bigger.



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[Wendelspanswick]

They were always pretty rubbish as routers go, lots of slop and vibration. I would not bother with them and try and get something with a bit more quality to use.

 

[DanielW]

They were always pretty rubbish as routers go, lots of slop and vibration. I would not bother with them and try and get something with a bit more quality to use.

Just by changing the bearings to rollercage ones gives em pretty much a decent enough use as a spindle otherwise i would not bother to use em as a spindle.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

I seem to remember that the bearing housing is plastic and as the bearing gets hot it softens, also the shaft size is fairly weak and puny so any heavy sideways load results in vibration.
Go for an old makita or elu if funds will stretch.

 

[mike 109444]

Work well as a die grinder though (as does the BD66 ? type) Certainly cheaper