First lathe

[vintec]

Griz,

if you decide to get rid of that thing look me up. I can be ther in a few hours

Vince

[Fitch]

Originally Posted by bigngreen

Sure you do I researched the mod # and it looks like it should gitter done. If it's running a flat leather belt slap a serpentine belt on it, Ive seen some real good articles on how much better they are than the leather belts. I think Practical machinist had a how to on it.

+1 on the serpentine belt. I put one on my 9" South Bend, should have done it years ago. It made a new lathe out of it. Runs quiet as a field mouse with hiccups. I used a sharp woodchisel to trim it square to length, drilled holes in it and laced it together with soft stainless steel wire. I tried the Spectra fish line but that stuff cut it's way out of the belt in about 8 weeks. The stainless wire has been in there a year and looks like it was just installed.

Fitch

[biggrizz408]

Thanks for all of the info. I went to the practical machinist web sight and all ready done the sepentine belt mod. I was lucky that my family at one time owned a dry cleaners alot of old machinery used leather belts, my dad kept the tooling for hooking the belts together and it works gust fine with the serpentine belt. I am working on a tool holder for some of the larger bits that it came with. I will try to get some pics in a few days.




James