Today's project was a long overdue upgrade for the lathe. The old hard thin fibre belt had always slipped under pressure, and a automotive serpentine belt seemed a perfect fit. It's a bit of a pain to replace, the main shaft, countershaft drive shaft and back gear all had to be removed. I had to consult the Youtube school of knowledge to learn the back gear assembly is held together with tapered pins and then I had to persuade all those parts to come apart, they've been there since 1944, but it's all done now, The belt is grippier and runs much quieter. Good upgrade.
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Very fine; I envy your gumption.
What do the gauges on that dash panel tell you? I'd guess RPMs, but there my imagination grinds to a halt.
That's part of another silly project, and a future post...my version of a cyclekart https://www.cyclekarts.com/ and that will be my fake-dashbard, the tach is aircraft from the teens or twenties (er, the last century's) and the other gauges just look the part. :- ) The dash will be a piece of cherry instead of whatever tropical-plywood that is.
DANG. Thanks for that link!
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