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Lathe belts
Darren:
Don, are you thinking of this stuff?
http://www.shopfloortalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18326&page=2
Be nice to find more info on it, seems a bit elusive?
John Hill:
For all your Imperialists, this is the remains of a portable sheep shearing plant as was once popular in the better class of colonies.
In use a leather belt went around each flywheel and up to the overhead shaft you can see with the split pulley de-clutching arrangement.
We had one on our farm which must have handled a million or so sheep in its time and all the while the leather belts were held together with 'copper bifurcated rivets'. The two ends of the belt were butted together then a short length was riveted on top so it was double thickness at the join with the short bit, of course, being on the outside.
Darren:
What's a "copper bifurcated rivet" :scratch:
John Hill:
I dont know about Amber but we had quite a bit of farm equipment using flat belts with the bigger ones using something that looked like a composit of woven fabric and rubber. For those belts we used rosen as the belt dressing, just a few crystals dropped on the belt when it started to slip, it used to build up on the pulley though.
Rosen, if I am not mistaken is tree sap and if you want to be really extravagant I expect you can still buy it at the music shop for your violin.
Oh, a copper bifurcated rivet is a split rivet, ( hence 'bifurcated" ) when you drive it through the leather the two legs spread apart then you bang them down from the other side. Leather work shops would have them for sure.
Darren:
That's it, That's what I need... :)
"Description: The bifurcated rivet is used as a self-piercing rivet. Materials such as leather, plywood, vulcanised fibre and plastics can all be joined with bifurcated rivets.
When set, the rivet legs can be forced back into the surface material to leave a relatively smooth surface. By riveting fibre board through fabric, the joints produced are very much stronger than stitching."
Now where to find some..... :lol:
http://www.findtheneedle.co.uk/products/81719-bifurcated-rivets.asp
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