Re: spindle to motor connection

Randy,

FWIW, I've also seen it done with a vee belt, but wouldn't recommend
that. The inner surface of the vee belt rode on the flat surface of
the long cylinder. It did work okay, but always rubbed me the wrong
way. Vee belts should drive by their angled faces...

Ballendo

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Randy Gordon-Gilmore
<zephyrus@r...> wrote:

> At 12:47 PM 1/23/2003 -0000, Ballendo wrote:
>
> >In use, the belt "follows" along with the narrower pulley as it

moves

> >up and down the longer right cylinder pulley. Which on the motor,

and

>
> The Roland EGX-30 (formerly CS-20) desktop engraving machine (see
> http://www.progressivesignsystems.com/roland/engravers/egx-30.htm)

uses

> this approach, but with a round belt. There is a 3:1 stepup

between the

> motor and spindle, and the wide pulley is on the motor.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Randy
>
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