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Steve's balls and air bladders (gross title!)

Posted by bartc (A) on October 31, 2009 at 12:00:34

In Reply to: RE: You won't convince me posted by flyfish2002 on October 31, 2009 at 07:17:12:

Steve's balls are solid, as I recall, and Gingko's are air bladders. They're both good isolators (Herbies products are very good, IME).

The theory with the Gingko, from reading their stuff, is that you modulate the degree of isolation to fit the weight of the component by using more or less bladders/balls. Steve's are weight rated.

I didn't see that Steve had any that were comparable size to racquetballs, but maybe he does. You can always ask him yourself, as he's been both forthcoming with advice and a very honest dealer in my experience with him.

I've used both solid and air bladder type isolators in my system. My preference is now for the solid, but that's because I only use them in some places (other places I use couplers and seismic sinks) for vertical isolation. I've settled on Norsorex balls ('sad' or 'dead' or 'unhappy' balls). Norsorex seems to work better for isolation than Sorbothane, and I know they use these on electron microscopes, where it really matters! Norsorex balls only seem to come in 3/4" up to 1.5" sizes, insofar as I've found them commercially, but they sure do the job at only 3/4" (my stuff doesn't weigh a lot though.)

Steve claims to have tested Norsorex and Sorbothane against his compound, another elastomer that is un=named.

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