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JPG,
Sorry about the confusion on this and what is happening is the speed control is not wanting to move past "H". Do not want to force it in which we may cause more damage and have already put so much work into it.
On the note of the sheaves moving freely/manually when we had it pulled apart ...

We have a Mark V from 1979 and have replaced a lot of parts. We still can not make it slow down past H on the speed dial. The things we have done; replaced almost all bearings, replaced both belts(both are OME), replaced the speed control assembly.

After the bearing change and cleaning up with ...

The belt was ordered from ShopSmith to make sure it was the right size and that fit was right.
On the high-speed adjustment, the speed was turned as far as we could get it even with adjusting the stop.

We went back out to the shop and took off the lower belt, again, and made sure the floating ...

Quick update, we did a high-speed adjustment which changed where the speed control gauge is but not the rate of speed. It is now dialing down to H and sitting at approximately 1500 to 1700 RPM. During the high-speed adjustment, we notice that the belt only came out to a 1/4" from the edge of the ...

Ok so new here and my father and I have been round and round with this problem. We just replaced the quadrant assembly and put a new drive belt on. This was done thinking it would allow the speed to be dialed down past H ( this was the problem to start). Now after doing this and lubricating ...