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Need belt for dental drill - any suggestions??
I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill.
It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long |
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:54:42 -0700, davefr wrote:
I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long O-ring cord stock? Randy |
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:54:42 -0700, davefr wrote:
I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long This won't help you directly (in the UK) but I think it's probably the sort of stuff you need:- http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/index.html?http%3A//www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/Chronos_Catalogue_What_s_New___137.html&CatalogBod y HTH Mark Rand RTFM |
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I've got an Emesco drill that needs a belt too. It looks like the Emesco
takes a 0.078" (5/64"?) belt and McMaster-Carr doesn't seem to sell them. My dentist suggested a dental supply outfit but I've forgotten the name. Google turns up this link: https://www.pattersondental.com/app.... engine+belts for belts but there isn't enough info to tell what the belts fit. The lengths seem about right, though. Another name for what we both are calling a dental drill seems to be laboratory engine and this place still sells them, new apparently. They might be able to supply a belt in the right size. http://www.buffalodental.com/pdfs/equip_brochure.pdf Further searching reveals that Buffalo does sell belts: http://www.buffalodental.com/pdfs/BD...16%2023-30.pdf I also turned up a Mil spec for dental engine belts he http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksear...t_number=50486 in case you want to generate an RFG g. They do specify around 0.1" diameter which is pretty close to the Emesco belt. Finally a rant - has anyone else noticed that it's hard to run a Google search for almost any item with turning up dozens of sites that feature Ebay listings, almost all of which are long since closed? Mike "davefr" wrote in message ... I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long |
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"davefr" wrote in message ... I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long There is a company in Sydney Oz that makes small belts to any circumference by welding the ends of small diameter plastic supplied by the reel. I think their main customers are roller conveyors on production lines. I have been there to pick one up but cannot remember the company name, sorry. -- John G Wot's Your Real Problem? |
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"davefr" wrote in message
... | I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. | It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to | the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). | | Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing | it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long Have you gone looking for small surgical or other process tubing? Small Parts Inc sells all kinds and sizes. |
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Ignoramus4205 wrote:
My deceased grandpa had a drill like this in Russia 15 years ago, and he was retired by then. It must be pretty old... I hope that you are not trying to drill teeth with that thing... My uncle Leo, the dentist, brought one with him when he made tracks out of Germany and us in the USA, around 1939. It was foot powered (Via one foot pedal which looked like the kind on a bass drum, and a pretty big pulley sort of like a treadle sewing machine.) He did quite a bit of dentistry for family members during WWII. IIRC, the belt looked like it had a woven fabric cover over something round and was about 1/8" diameter. Thanks for the mammaries, Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) "Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented." |
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I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill.
It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long Go to a local chainsaw repair shop and buy some of the small, yellow fuel line of the correct length - and simply splice it together with a small diameter "plug" in each end of the tubing (plug not being too long to permit travel around the pulleys.) I fixed an old Kodak movie projector like that once. Still working. HTH Ken. |
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Thanks. McMaster has just what I need.
On 6 Aug 2005 15:11:45 -0700, wrote: I need a replacement drive belt Go to MMC (http://www.mcmaster.com/) and search on drive belts. |
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:54:42 -0700, davefr wrote:
I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Considering the age (turn of last century...) the original belt is probably rawhide or catgut of some sort. Heat-welded (with a soldering iron) monofilament fishing line / weed whacker line would be my first try, if for no other reason than a cheap-and-dirty test. Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long If all else fails, consider the takeup reel "spring belts" off old 16MM projectors might work as a 'period correct replacement' - basically a long chunk of tension spring with one end turned down small, and you threaded the reduced end inside the other end to "splice" the belt. Yeah, I did a stint as AV Geek, and many times before and since got dragooned into running the projector when nobody else could. Including the time I had to sit there spinning the takeup reel with a finger for the whole film. ;-) -- Bruce -- -- Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700 5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545 Spamtrapped address: Remove the python and the invalid, and use a net. |
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davefr wrote:
I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long Gasket seal comes in long length of that size. It is to make custom lid gaskets. That is a possible. Is it leather ? Or what material ? Available from a dental supply company ? Martin -- Martin Eastburn @ home at Lion's Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Those are great links. It looks like Pyrathane dental engine belts
are exactly what I want and also pretty inexpensive. However it appears these dental suppliers only sell to dentists. On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:12:42 -0500, "Mike Henry" wrote: I've got an Emesco drill that needs a belt too. It looks like the Emesco takes a 0.078" (5/64"?) belt and McMaster-Carr doesn't seem to sell them. My dentist suggested a dental supply outfit but I've forgotten the name. Google turns up this link: https://www.pattersondental.com/app.... engine+belts for belts but there isn't enough info to tell what the belts fit. The lengths seem about right, though. Another name for what we both are calling a dental drill seems to be laboratory engine and this place still sells them, new apparently. They might be able to supply a belt in the right size. http://www.buffalodental.com/pdfs/equip_brochure.pdf Further searching reveals that Buffalo does sell belts: http://www.buffalodental.com/pdfs/BD...16%2023-30.pdf I also turned up a Mil spec for dental engine belts he http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksear...t_number=50486 in case you want to generate an RFG g. They do specify around 0.1" diameter which is pretty close to the Emesco belt. Finally a rant - has anyone else noticed that it's hard to run a Google search for almost any item with turning up dozens of sites that feature Ebay listings, almost all of which are long since closed? Mike "davefr" wrote in message .. . I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long |
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Bruce,
That brings back memories! I ran 16mm projectors when I was in high school in Mesa, AZ (Grad 1986) I still think the quality of the movies and the big screen was worth it, so much I bought a 16mm Kodak off EBAY and a few 16mm films for my own amusement. Just before I finished high school they put a 29" TV in the front corner of each classroom to replace the projectors. What a JOKE! I remember squinting from the front row seats trying to make out the picture (I had 20/20 vision) and the sound was so low even at full volume it sucked. Still didn't have the library of subjects that were available on 16mm. Just look at the Prelinger archives on the net. They convert 16mm to PC video formats and the downloads are free. I love the old factory, steel making and aluminum smelting movie from the 30's and 40's. An OSHA inspector would have cried seeing these! (Metal working content!) Now the local community colleges have overhead projectors at $5k to 10k per pop in each classroom and no one uses them as no support is provided to the teachers. My idea of the old projector tech wheeling a projector to the classrooms was killed as "inefficient". Funny thing is a couple of weeks after my suggestion there was 2 or 3 projectors that were cut off the ceiling mounts and dissapeared. I doubt they had 10 or more projection hours on them and made the new owners good money on Ebay. Hope they removed the cut cables before taking the pics. Bart Bart D. Hull Tempe, Arizona Check http://www.inficad.com/~bdhull/engine.html for my Subaru Engine Conversion Check http://www.inficad.com/~bdhull/fuselage.html for Tango II I'm building. Remove -nospam to reply via email. Bruce L. Bergman wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:54:42 -0700, davefr wrote: I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Considering the age (turn of last century...) the original belt is probably rawhide or catgut of some sort. Heat-welded (with a soldering iron) monofilament fishing line / weed whacker line would be my first try, if for no other reason than a cheap-and-dirty test. Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long If all else fails, consider the takeup reel "spring belts" off old 16MM projectors might work as a 'period correct replacement' - basically a long chunk of tension spring with one end turned down small, and you threaded the reduced end inside the other end to "splice" the belt. Yeah, I did a stint as AV Geek, and many times before and since got dragooned into running the projector when nobody else could. Including the time I had to sit there spinning the takeup reel with a finger for the whole film. ;-) -- Bruce -- |
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Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
...I did a stint as AV Geek, and many times before and since got dragooned into running the projector when nobody else could... They all thought it was magic. "Oh no! The audio doesn't match the video". Then us AV magicians would simply increase the size of the loop. That was much more magical than simply advancing the film strip every time you hear the "ting". I still have my Bell and Howell "certified projectionist" card from the early 60's. Lump |
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Perhaps your dentist wouldn't mind ordering a belt for you. It looks like
Buffalo only sells to dealers (distributors?) but a phone call or email to them might be productive. I've just emailed them and will report back here if I get a reply. Mike "davefr" wrote in message ... Those are great links. It looks like Pyrathane dental engine belts are exactly what I want and also pretty inexpensive. However it appears these dental suppliers only sell to dentists. On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:12:42 -0500, "Mike Henry" wrote: I've got an Emesco drill that needs a belt too. It looks like the Emesco takes a 0.078" (5/64"?) belt and McMaster-Carr doesn't seem to sell them. My dentist suggested a dental supply outfit but I've forgotten the name. Google turns up this link: https://www.pattersondental.com/app.... engine+belts for belts but there isn't enough info to tell what the belts fit. The lengths seem about right, though. Another name for what we both are calling a dental drill seems to be laboratory engine and this place still sells them, new apparently. They might be able to supply a belt in the right size. http://www.buffalodental.com/pdfs/equip_brochure.pdf Further searching reveals that Buffalo does sell belts: http://www.buffalodental.com/pdfs/BD...16%2023-30.pdf I also turned up a Mil spec for dental engine belts he http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksear...t_number=50486 in case you want to generate an RFG g. They do specify around 0.1" diameter which is pretty close to the Emesco belt. Finally a rant - has anyone else noticed that it's hard to run a Google search for almost any item with turning up dozens of sites that feature Ebay listings, almost all of which are long since closed? Mike "davefr" wrote in message . .. I need a replacement drive belt for an old belt driven dental drill. It's the type with a drive motor and lots of pulleys and arms going to the actual drill. (Foredom Model #9). Factory parts are no longer avail. Any suggestions? I'm guessing it's a continuous loop about 1/8" diam and about 5' long |
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In article ,
says... Those are great links. It looks like Pyrathane dental engine belts are exactly what I want and also pretty inexpensive. However it appears these dental suppliers only sell to dentists. Pytrathane is a tradename of Pyramid, Inc. They'll make any belt length to order and will sell direct. Be sure to follow the stretch recommendations (around 10-15% IIRC) when figuring belt length. http://www.pyramidbelts.com/ You can also buy open lengths of the belting material. It's pretty easy to weld with a heat gun once you get the hang of it, but if you're confident of the proper length it's really not worth doing yourself. My only connection to Pyramid is as a happy customer. Ned Simmons |
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Doesn't Foredom still make flex shaft tools? Maybe they have a part
for some other tool that might work. Or maybe an aftermarket distributor or competitor has parts that might work. Defintely try mcmaster, they have custom belts made to specific lengths that you can order. Or MSC, or Grainger. |
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