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X2 belt drive conversion
raynerd:
Tim, great start - excellent photo`s, please keep them coming. I am really keen to see all the stages to make this project so keep the pictures flowing if you can bothered to keep taking them. I`m really interested to see how you actually cut the pully sections, tooling used and such.
Regarding belts - I will eventually need some, be it in 5 months or 18months and therefore for the price, if you find a supplier or decide to get some shipped over I`d be happy to order a few + spares and split postage and import costs.
Chris
CrewCab:
LIMCT in the States sells the 0130 Belt as "cheap as chips" ................ (about £1.50), but their carriage costs to the UK were unreal :bang: ................. however ............. having a few members over there that needn't be a problem.
CC
bogstandard:
Have any of you considered using Redthane belting, just buy yourself a length and cut and weld it to fit. No more searching to find a specialist stockist of your v-belts.
I find it much better than normal V belts and it lasts considerably longer. Machines run a lot quieter with less vibration, and in bad circumstances can have enough 'give' in it to prevent damage to the machine, and of course, during it's life, because it is always in tension, no belt tension adjustment is needed.
http://www.poly-products.co.uk/beltext.htm
It comes in a variety of sizes and you can usually buy it by the metre from local engineering suppliers. I will be upgrading my lathe belts soon, and that will allow me to switch pulleys without having to make a complicated tensioning device. Just stretch it off one pulley and onto the next.
John
spuddevans:
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on May 22, 2009, 02:38:52 PM ---If you don't have any luck, let me know. Mcmaster carr is 10 min from me. I can get em and ship them to you.
Eric
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Thanks Eric, if I cant source any here I might just take you up on that :thumbup: :thumbup:
--- Quote from: Darren on May 22, 2009, 02:42:32 PM ---My local motor factors in the UK seem to stock every size I have ever asked for over the years. They are stored by type and length there unlike Halfords which you need to specify which car you want it for.
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I'll give that a try Darren, I think there's a place near me that specialises in just belts and bearings so I'll try there and then some motor factors.
--- Quote from: Bernd on May 22, 2009, 04:14:05 PM ---Now that I've studied the pics a bit more I see that it really won't matter if it wasn't perfectly square since you will be turning the surface down quite a bit.
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I know that I've cut away a lot on one end of the ali bar, but the plans call for a pulley of a little over 3", and this is a 3" bar so I didnt want to loose any more than absolutely nessesary as I will already be making a slightly smaller pulley than the plans call for. Thus the extra effort to make sure everything was properly square and true.
--- Quote from: CrewCab on May 22, 2009, 04:21:51 PM ---Nice start Tim
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Thanks CC
--- Quote ---don't know if yours will use the the same.
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Yup, it's the same, although as I'm making the major-diameter pulley a little smaller than the plans call for I might get both a 13" and a 12" or 12.5" as well to be covered.
--- Quote from: craynerd on May 22, 2009, 04:22:30 PM ---Tim, great start - excellent photo`s, please keep them coming. I am really keen to see all the stages to make this project so keep the pictures flowing if you can bothered to keep taking them. I`m really interested to see how you actually cut the pully sections, tooling used and such.
Regarding belts - I will eventually need some, be it in 5 months or 18months and therefore for the price, if you find a supplier or decide to get some shipped over I`d be happy to order a few + spares and split postage and import costs.
Chris
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Thanks Chris, I'll keep on taking pics, even of the really mundane stuff :coffee: I'm intending to cut the pulley sections with my parting tool, I figure on turning down the center flat sections of both pulleys and then angling the compound over and cutting the V sides. If anyones got any other ways of doing it I'm all ears.
Re the belts, PM recieved and replied to.
--- Quote from: bogstandard on May 22, 2009, 05:01:19 PM ---Have any of you considered using Redthane belting, just buy yourself a length and cut and weld it to fit. No more searching to find a specialist stockist of your v-belts.
I find it much better than normal V belts and it lasts considerably longer. Machines run a lot quieter with less vibration, and in bad circumstances can have enough 'give' in it to prevent damage to the machine, and of course, during it's life, because it is always in tension, no belt tension adjustment is needed.
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That looks very interesting, is it easy to weld? Does it need a different pulley groove from a V-belt?
Hmmm :smart: :coffee: I'll have to look into sourcing some of that around here or online.
Thanks everybody for looking and commenting.
Tim
Darren:
I need a new belt on my mill, the inner is starting to come away and no doubt causing some vibration.
Would you recommend that type of belting for such a machine John?
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