Adjusting Belt Tension

[mark2u]

Methinks you hit the nail squarely on the head!!!:)

See Mickyd's greenie restoration thread for insight into the clutch/refurbing/testing it!

I'll do that and thanks to everyone for being so helpful. I'm still working on finding the problem so any other thoughts are appreciated. I'll keep checking in. Again , thanks for making me feel welcomed.

[mark2u]

Yes, having a forum member nearby to speak with directly would be great. I am located in Santa Cruz, Ca. on the Monterey Bay and across the hill from San Jose.

[beeg]

I am located in Santa Cruz, Ca. on the Monterrey Bay and across the hill from San Jose.

IF you so choose, ya can put that info in your profile, through "USER CP", in the red bar above.

[mark2u]

I am located in Santa Cruz, Ca. on the north side of the Monterey Bay. Anyone know of someone with a Shopsmith Mark V in the area?

[Nvmarv]

I just restored/rejuvenated my greenie tried some cuts and noticed a slow down in motor speed along with belt slippage smell... checked both belts... the filmed was fine but poly belt seems to be chewed up.. what would cause this as gilmer is tensioned to 1/8 to 1/4 deflection.

[Nvmarv]

Should have written gilmer but it autocorrect

[Nvmarv]

The 610 refreshed as well

[Nvmarv]

And not sure why pics are sideways... Done from iphone

[JPG]

To set Gilmer tension, increase tension until the belt gets noisy, then back off slightly.

Oh the joys of technology being too active with zero intuition. Iphone (as well as other 'cameras') store an orientation in bits and then stores the pix in wide vs tall format. i.e. upper left corner is tl/tr/bl/br. The forum software ignores those bits and displays the pix as stored.

So hold the phone only one way when taking pix.( whatever way that will display properly when bits are ignored). Next time rotate the iphone 90° CW from that orientation when those pix were taken.