You shouldn't have any problems with it. Yes, it would be a rare occurrence.
Lots of industrial milling machines have this type drive and don't have any
problems. It would be the rare hobbyist (pretty well non existent) that
would ever run their machine that hard or that long.

"Mike Paulson" wrote in message
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I suspect the wear you mention was caused by grit from the mixer getting
on the belt. That's just a guess, but I have owned a couple reeves drive
lathes, know others who have them as well, and have been a part of this
newsgroup since day one, and I have never heard of the wear you mention on
a reeves drive on a wood lathe. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen, I
suppose, but I think it would be an extremely rare occurrence.

-mike paulson, fort collins, co