What are peoples thoughts on stepper motor gaskets?

What are peoples thoughts on stepper motor gaskets? I stumbled across them when looking at other items to buy i have done a bit of research and there seems to be two types a rubber based one and a cork based one.

Rubber

Cork
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stepper-Motor-NEMA-17-Cork-Gasket-5-Pack-/281285157404

I know that the cork ones help, but honestly there is still resonance because the screw is still mounted to the frame making a rigid connection. I say best choice is to actually use trinamic drivers instead of damping.

I heard the cork ones don’t really do much. I’ve done pretty well with the Astrosyn style dampers. Different drivers might help. If your board has TI DRV8825 chips, there’s a diode kit you can use to fix those up a bit. Enclosures help too. 0.9° motors helped me, but beware that it reduces your top speed.

Astrosyn dampers work really well. Cork barely does anything.

Ended up purchasing Astronsyn style dampers :slight_smile: thanks for help guy’s :slight_smile:

If you are looking for dampers don’t pay attention to the cork ones. They are cheap but they don’t solve the problem. Best dampers are based in TPU.
http://store.thingibox.com/en/mechanical/241-stepper_damper_nema_17.html