Chris,
That is a pretty large elastomer compared to what most people have
used. I don't recall the details of the meeting show and tell you refer
to, but I think it was recent enough that you might find it with a bit
of browsing on the club site.

If you don't have any success with that, I had a few thoughts on
alternative sources. The easy source would be a decent bike shop that
carries replacement elastomers for MTB forks, which would be about that
size. Ray Brick used to use vibration dampening mounts for commercial
refrigeration units (he worked in the HVAC field), but I don't know of a
source for them - maybe you could Google up a source or contact Ray? One
of the cuter elastomers I have seen was on an M5 recumbent from Holland
that used a car (or truck?) rubber muffler hanger, though the suspension
had to be arranged to put that piece under tension rather than
compression (you just make the rear swing arm mounting point ABOVE the
frame mounting point rather than just below it). Good luck.
Tim Dunsworth

>>> "chrsbrbnk" <chrsbrbnk@...> 12/23/2004 4:06:12 PM >>>

I recall at one of the meetings someone mentioned finding rubber
elastomers to use in a rear suspension. Does anyone know of a source
for something like this? I was thinking aprox. 2" dia X 3" long
thanks Chris




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