{"id":2740,"date":"2009-02-05T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:43:53","slug":"pulley-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"Pulley Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing Matches<\/em><\/p>\n

Man, it’s impossible mating motors to drive pulleys.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I have. I can get a nice motor with a 7\/8″ shaft. But the best drive pulley I’ve found is right here.<\/a> As you can see, it has a bore larger than 7\/8″. <\/p>\n

I guess this would be a big ol’ joke to a person who owns a mill and a lathe. You pop your metal into the lathe, make yourself a cylinder that fits around the shaft, and then mill a keyway in it. For that matter, I guess you could make the pulley itself, with the right size hole.<\/p>\n

Irritating.<\/p>\n

I’ve had other ideas. One is to get a go-kart drive wheel with a 5″ diameter and weld it inside a piece of steel pipe with a 5″ ID. The pipe wouldn’t be crowned, but I have a theory about that. You put it on the motor, bolt the motor down, fire it up, and put a crown on it. You use the motor as a lathe to turn the pulley while you shape it. Would it work? I’ll never know, unless a source of 5″ ID pipe falls into my lap. I think go-kart wheels would be good for idlers, because the bearings are made to put up with high speeds and heavy loads over long periods of time.<\/p>\n

The idler pulleys are not a problem, regardless. I can get 4″ belt sander pulleys and bearings cheap. If they’ll work on belt sanders, surely they’ll work on a grinder. The big challenge will be to get them mounted right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing Matches Man, it’s impossible mating motors to drive pulleys. Here’s what I have. I can get a nice motor with a 7\/8″ shaft. But the best drive pulley I’ve found is right here. As you can see, it has a bore larger than 7\/8″. I guess this would be a big ol’ joke to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}