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DSEL74
8th Feb 2017, 07:03 PM
Ok I have a problem, well a few actually but one in specific I want to ask about.

I bought a Power Surface grinder last year and am trying to get it running again. It is flat belt driven and the previous oven had started to modify it.

It has a interesting pulley set up and a weighted tension arm. There is one short belt for the auto feed. The longer one drives the head.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170208/ee2dd82dcf6f31942aeff9264b63abac.jpg
No issue there I think I have the belts butted out.

My problem is the long belt with no join is no longer attached to the grinder head spindle.

He has also machined grooves into that pulley to take rubber belts. I need to replace this with an original one but I can't see how to get it out?
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170208/5d42236627af0c0870b9026f8e8d369b.jpg

At the back of the head is a single nut and a bearing race.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170208/8c95b6cb9005d9613863b53a5a055a56.jpg The pulley had a grub screw which I removed but it is still solidly fixed in place....Does that look like a tack weld to anyone else?

The front is a bit more elaborate and I don't have the spanners for it.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170208/d800e875af89cd3b9f33bdcbd1dad768.jpg

A few of you have rebuilt other machines is this similar and any tips on the way to tackle it???

KBs PensNmore
8th Feb 2017, 08:21 PM
Dale, while you're waiting for an answer, I think it might be a good opportunity to make a few spanners to help disassembly.
Kryn

12bolts
9th Feb 2017, 08:06 AM
Is the diameter of the head pulley small enough to pass through the casting once you remove the bearing in the back of the head? If it wont then you will need to release it from the shaft to get it out.

And is this the tack weld you are referring to? Sure looks like one to me.
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Cheers Phil

DSEL74
9th Feb 2017, 09:50 AM
Not much room in there to try and see. But yes that is what I thought may be a weld. I only spotted it in the photo myself.

The pulley may fit through the hole in the back if the bearing was removed. The bearing would have been pressed in?


i don't know know if it should come out to the front or rear either.

DSEL74
2nd Mar 2017, 10:29 PM
Just realised I some how put this in the smithy rather than general section. If mids can shift it please.


Thanks to a C-spanner from the Swapmeet I got this loose so there is some hope yet.
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