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brucedownunder2
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Joined: 14/09/2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 1548

Posted: 10:13pm 30 Sep 2011

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I was reading some posts about timing belts ... I tried once ,but the belt slipped off and the mill went into agro mode stripping off all the ribs of the timing belt .

Sooooo, a idler pulley or at least'flanged' gears should be used ,oh,,, and ,,It's so very important to align the pulleys absolutely perfect in -line..

(the disc brake in this photo worked a treat on the smallish mill ,,just bought the control line(heavy fishing line) down the tower to activate the hand brake ,..

Bruce

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niall1

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Joined: 20/11/2008
Location: Ireland
Posts: 331

Posted: 10:54pm 30 Sep 2011

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where have you been hiding this ?....

thats a very interesting looking use of a timing belt on a hawt ...those gears and belts are pretty much scrap value in car breakers ....even a new belt is cheap enough ..

the pic looks interesting ...

Edited by niall1 2011-10-02

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Catch66
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Joined: 13/03/2010
Location: United States
Posts: 27

Posted: 01:13am 03 Oct 2011

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Very Nice. well thought out and quiet,with A very tough material.
Good job, thanks for sharing,
Chuck S

philb

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Joined: 05/07/2008
Location: United States
Posts: 96

Posted: 10:39pm 03 Oct 2011

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Good idea Bruce.
I looked at the possibility, but decided I didn't want to tackle the alignment issues on my axial flux model right then. For F&P, that looks like a just the thing to get more power out.
I hope you will continue to make excellent progress with plenty of pictures posted here.

philb

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