[modeleng] Re: Prices

Hi Shep,

Glad to hear the knee surgery went well.

With regard to your idler, be sure to put it on the loose side of the belt 
run. Between the motor and the driven pulley or pulleys the motor will pull 
the belt in tightly. Don't put the idler on one of these tight runs. You 
want your idler on one of the slack runs after the last pulley has been 
driven and before the motor pulley. This is especially true with a back of 
belt idler.

Good luck with it.

Cheers Jeff Dayman Waterloo Ontario Canada

getting warmer but had snow flurries yesterday and still 12" or more of snow 
on the ground.


>From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [modeleng] Re: Prices
>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:48:31 -0000
>
>Perhaps we should arrange a special group visit to the USA and return with
>suitcases bulging with cut-price goodies?!
>
>I am delighted to hear of the two new members - but what has happened to 
>the
>rest of the members of our List - there has been a deathly hush since my
>return from Cape Town.
>
>I returned to the planning of my little lathe today, and with great
>reluctance did some mechanical drawings.   I am very bad at this, but I
>could not avoid drawing this gizmo, as it has to fit into a tight existing
>corner, and I can't follow my usual method of cutting metal, and then doing
>it again!    This mini-project is to provide a belt tensioner for the tiny
>5-vee poly-vee belt.    At the moment, I have to move the motor or the 
>lathe
>to change the belt tension - not the most elegant method!   My design
>includes two little ball-races (side-by-side to match the width of the 
>belt)
>to run on the outside of the belt.    This will also increase the
>wrap-around of the belt on the mandrel pulley, which is cut into the 20mm
>mandrel - the minimum size allowed for this size of belt.   The proof of 
>the
>drawing will be in the end result!
>
>I eagerly await a flood of your messages.
>
>Cheers!   Hubert
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:10 PM
>Subject: [modeleng] Prices
>
>
> >A pal has just returned from a holiday in the US, and bought back a load 
>of
> > catalogues.
> > I am astounded at how low prices are in America compares to what we have
> > to
> > pay.
> >
> > If you compare Harbor Freight with Machine Mart, for products that 
>appear
> > identical, and probably are as so much is made in China, the US price is
> > between 35% and 50% of the UK price.
> >
> > Looking at Grizzly, most things are half what we pay, some much less.
> >
> > Sadly, he only bought back catalogues and not cases full of goodies!
> >
> > http://www.alanstepney.info
> > Alan Stepney's Model Engineering, steam, and workshop pages.
> >
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