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I decided to tear down another Greenie today. As I took the Gilmer drive out of the machine, I discovered that the Greenie with the mystery part originally had the clutch system. The large spacer and thin washer from the clutch system are the same parts remaining on the shaft of the mystery Greenie ...

The Gilmer pulley issue has been resolved. However, several of you have not seen a pulley without the clutch feature. The pictures I post show that an aluminum pulley constructed of one solid piece with stamped numbers from a production run exists for the Greenies. The pulley is larger in diameter ...

Thanks for the posted links. My model is 1956. I will attempt to provide pictures.

Thanks for your pictures and post. My machine is older, without a clutch on the Gilmer drive. My Quill looks exactly as the one you pictured. My Gilmer pulley does not closely resemble the pulley with a clutch.

I viewed another post with pictures and that also shows the clutch model. I must have a ...

On the model I have, the Gilmer pulley with two Allen set screws is too large to come out of the bearing holes. I assumed the bearings and shaft were an assembly as well. From a few pictures I have seen of other posts, it appears as an assembly. The belt pulley is far too large to be extracted from ...

I traded for a Greenie (1956) with Gilmer drive. The Quill bearings were rough so I took the assembly apart. Bearings were located and my wife became very ill. Six weeks later I am trying to recall the order of assembly for the Quill shaft, mainly there are two bearings, the Gilmer drive pulley with ...