Greetings all; Do any of you know of a pulley maker that can supply a large hub in in a 40 tooth pulley that is also more than an inch wide at the hub?
I find that to align a belt on the X drive, that I have to find a pulley with an 8mm bore, but around 2" wide at the hub, because I am going to have to bore it away under the belt to allow it to sit on the X drive shaft with an offset of at east an inch so that it can be aligned with the pulley on the motor. I just went thru 18 pages of ebay without finding a pulley with a hub wider than 1". So its either a looooong hub, or I make the adaptor, which means the pulley will need bored out to at least 1.375" in diameter in order to fit over the adapter's outer cylinder, perhaps all the way thru. Maybe even make a flange on the adapter that a thin webbed pulley might be bolted to. Obviously I don't relish that idea. Doable, yes. A time sink, double yes. I did see ebay had some 2/1 and 3/1 step drives that might give that much axial offset, but they were for wider belts and even a 2/1 would impinge on the gear ratio, possible messing with the performance of a G76's end of stroke retraction. I'm not terribly interested in dealing with that one custom pulley maker, having been quoted $272 for the metal version of the plastic one I can get from LMS for $4.50 + ship. So if anyone knows of other alternatives, I'm all eyeballs. Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users