Screaming Router - How do I make it quieter

I agree with Dave, see if you can create an enclosure for the router. Thats probably about the easiest way to reduce the noise.

All of my routers, with the one exception, scream like banshees.

20,000 rpm or so (DeWalt gives the no load speed as 24,500) is very fast and no matter which bit is installed, there are things in the motor case flying about at great speed.

One effect that may be at work is the interface between the rotor and the stator. If you look at a siren (the kind they use to call fireman to the station) there is a rotor inside the stator case and the spacing of the slots in each is responsible for the ear shattering wail. Perhaps that effect is particularly strong in that certain router.

I agree with Dave. Try enclosing and insulating the base. However, don’t forget to provide a way for air cooling and chip collection. The muffling of the router will be limited by those two considerations.

Oh yes, the one router I have that isn’t an ear-buster?

Its the Dremel rotary in the cute little plastic router adaptation they sell. Its not a serious routor, but occasionally useful. I saw The Norm using one for a decorative effect and, naturally, I had to have it. (Please refer to the posts on tool addicition)

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Hey Zuki,
Mount the router on an enclosed heavy wood mobile cabinet and incorporate a dust extraction system adding some drawers or space for all your router bits.

If it didn’t scream before and does now it’s probably a bearing. They screech when they’re getting old.

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if your using t&g bits try taking a few smaller passes and getting some of the waste wood out of the way, then on your final pass go all the way to the bearing guide.

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Ear plugs!

For good replies, see above.

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duck tape and cardboard

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Plant a hedge or built a fence between shop and house. They will decrease the noise coming from the shop, and also decrease the noise coming from the house. Lol

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If it’s variable speed turn it down. You need to run certain RPMs for certain bits. The larger the bit the slower the speed. That will help reduce the noise.

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All of the above

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Tks for all the replies. The consensus is to enclose the base. Im not going to rebuild the entire cabinet, although that would allow for maximum dampening, but instead I used 1” styro cut to size for both the open ends and the sides. I have left gaps for ventilation and the dust extraction is taken from behind the bit.

The simplest solution is to get DW to wear ear plugs . . . but dat aint gonna happen. :-)

Here are some pics. Does it work . . . not sure . . . have not run it yet. But I will let you know.

I’m using a high tech piece of orange string to to keep it all together. That may change when I fire it up.

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A bit late on this one but could the aluminum table be acting as an amplifier; kind of like the sounding board of a guitar?

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