I am totally open to bashing gears, belts, motors, screws, and and and.... and myself too!
I think @DPittman asked a pretty good question. And now I'm enjoying the stone throwing that I anticipated from the beginning.
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Belt drive vs gear drive
- Thread starter DPittman
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I am totally open to bashing gears, belts, motors, screws, and and and.... and myself too!
I think @DPittman asked a pretty good question. And now I'm enjoying the stone throwing that I anticipated from the beginning.
Downwindtracker2
Super User
My belt driven Taiwanese Generic runs a Norton style gear box for feed and threading. The older belt drives had change gears.
DPittman
Ultra Member
I had an older 12x36 generic that had was belt driven and had a nortin style gear box. It had one change gear when you had to do metric threading. I think it would have been a great lathe for a vfd conversion.