"Brad Smallridge" wrote:

I recently made a V-belt pulley but
with some difficulty because I had
trouble setting up a 20 degree angle
on the inside surface closest the
lathe head. I suppose I could turn
the pulley around but then it might
not run true.

If you had turned the pulley on a mandrel between centers for left side
clearance for the compound, life might have been easier. We turn a lot of V
belt pulleys for class 8 trucks using a carbide parting tool but that is on
a cnc lathe where things are a bit different than an engine lathe using a
compound.

Wes