[TheForge] Flatbelt excitement

[Bob Ehrenberger]

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:00:59 -0500
From: schade at acegroup.cc
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Flatbelt excitement
To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>

On May 26, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Mike Porter wrote:

> Thanks for the warning Mike,
> I have been planning to use flat belts in much lighter equipment, but
> hadn't
> considered a spring loaded idler to be needed; now I'll include one.
> Mikey
>
>

I understand that there is a right side and a wrong side to put the
idler. If I remember right the idler should be on the powered side of
the belt rather than the slack side.

Someone will know.

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My tiller uses an idler as a clutch, it's on the slack side.

If you want to change the dynamics of the system, you could add a jack shaft
between the truck and the hammer.  Kind of like a one impliment line shaft,
two short belts instead of one long one.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net
573-633-2010