Bench drill belt information needed

[stuart_morgan_64]

I have this drill which I find usefull. However the belt needs replacing. What sort of drill is it, where would I find a belt, and what to search for online.

Thanks Stuart

[Station X]

Do a search on "Round Transmission Belt".

Yours appears to be joined with a loop of wire, but I've had great success using Super Glue. Alternatively heat the ends to a semi molten state and bring them together.

Could you just shorthen the existing belt?

[Nickthedentist]

The belt looks like a leather, treadle sewing machine belt, which were indeed held together with something like a paper clip. Replacements are readily available, e.g. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TREADLE-BE...4AAOxyffZSXTw3

But as Graham suggests, there's probably something better available. The leather belt may have been a DIY stop-gap measure.

Nick.

[orbanp1]

Hi Stuart,

That looks like a leather belt, and in a relatively good shape! Mind you this from the pictures...
If the ends of the belt are causing trouble, it can be trimmed off, looks like the belt adjustment would allow for that much shortening.

Old sawing machines with "treadle drive" used a leather belt like that.

Good luck, Peter

[Refugee]

I would buy a short length of chain from a DIY store and use one of the links.
I have seen hobby lathes with two metal links like that joining the flat belt.

[ms660]

There are probably other suppliers too:

http://www.lathes.co.uk/page4.html

Lawrence.

[ex 2 Base]

On my drilling machine I have belt called Redthane, its a Red stretchy circular type plastic material. You buy it by the metre. To join the ends, I use my blow lamp to heater up an old hacksaw blade until it is very hot, then I press the two ends onto the now very hot blade, so that the plastic melts, then I pressed the two end together, using a piece of angle iron as a jig for alignment. I left it overnight, then trimmed the end with a sharp knife and finally cleaned it up on my belt sander.Ted

[stuart_morgan_64]

Hya, so much info so quick, thank you. It is a lather belt and is getting a bit hard and shiny. with you help I have a few options to think about.

Mny thanks.

[David G4EBT]

On my little Lorch Scmidt watchmakers lathe - now over 100 years old - I use heat sealed 'transmission belt' which you just cut to length, allowing whatever degree of tension you require, and join the ends. Welding the ends together an acquired skill, but quickly mastered. I put a wallpaper scraper in the vice, heat the blade up gently with a blowlamp, then apply the ends of the belt to either side of the scraper blade and slide the ends up off the blade, pressing them together, accurately aligned. Done properly, you can pull it apart. Any excess around the joint can neatly be trimmed off the a craft knife.

It's available in four imperial diameters: 1/8", 1/4", 5/15" & 3/8" and sold by the Metre:

http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/E...n_Belt_46.html

The pic shows it in use on my lathe.

Hope that's of interest.

[stuart_morgan_64]

Thanks everyone. I had some of the melt together cord I bought years ago. Before I had given up with it. With a youtube video I am now up and running. Many thanks all

[emeritus]

I got a supply of that sort of belt in various diameters from Radiospares some years ago. I use the barrel of an old Henley Solon soldering iron to melt the ends.