[SEL] Belt Dressing

bill at antique-engines.com bill at antique-engines.com
Mon Feb 7 07:52:22 PST 2005


blood may make a great belt dressing - makes the belt and pulley really
sticky as it starts to dry.

I know it makes phones really sticky, especially the 9 and 1 keys and
handset.

Bill


> J. Dave,
> Somewhere on Rob's rustyiron website is a great article on the HP that
> can be transmitted with any given combination of belt width, driven
> pulley diameter, driver pulley diameter, and speed. I believe it would
> be a safe statement that reliance on belt dressing is necessary only
> when exceeding the permissible HP the calculations/charts show. That
> statement will likely stir up some debate, but I've found that by
> following these belt HP transmission guidelines, I've never had to use
> belt dressing.
> Perhaps Rob can post the link.
> Curt Holland
> Gastonia, NC
>
> Dave Mayfield wrote:
>
>>You are right Rob, but you did not consider that the pulley on a JD B, is
>>much smaller than the puller on the grinder, so the belt is the proper
>> size.
>>
>>J. Dave Mayfield
>>www.w9wrl.com
>>
>>
>
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