[time-nuts] Vibration isolation of quartz oscillators

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Neville Michie writes:
> An old trick I learned from an Australian standards lab was to make a vibration free
> table with a 2 foot by 2 foot by 2 inch paving slab supported by a partly inflated 
> wheel barrow inner tube.

Yes, that works surprisingly well, because the toroid shape of the inner tube.

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