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Posted by Red Dave on February 11, 2004 at 06:45:35 from (24.104.94.34):
In Reply to: Belt Drive Hammer Mill posted by Ted on February 11, 2004 at 05:19:59:
I don't know about any rules of thumb, but I have done a little belt work. On steam engines usually a pretty long belt is used for a couple of reasons. One is the weight of the belt helps add tension without pulling it super tight. A long belt with some sag also helps damp out the pulses that you get from a single double-acting cylinder turning the flywheel. A twist in the belt seems to help control the flopping, but that is easy to do on a steam engine because you can reverse the flywheel direction. You can't do that on your M. Here in the US, belts I've seen used tend be long with some sag. I have a video made in England of steam engines operating belt-driven machinery and I noticed that they seemed to favor short belts pulled tight as a piano string. I don't know why they do it differently or if one way is better than the other. I suspect that it's just a difference in customs.
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