"dpb" wrote in message ...
I've a couple old B&D belt sanders that are my favorites for balance,
weight, size, etc., etc., etc., ... At the moment there seem to be none
in production w/ 3x24 that have similar physical dimensions--I have a
Makita but it turns out to have 3" rollers on the 4" body so it's
excessively bulky and similar issues plague every other current model I've
been able to find.

Preamble out of the way, what's wrong w/ these is that the drive gear on
the end of the motor rotor and it's matching gear wear to the point they
slip and then it's done for. There are no spare parts available (these
went of of production in the late '70s/early '80s).

So question is, does anybody know of anywhere one might affordably be able
to have some replacement gears made?

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Proly not easily.
If you could make the blank (bore, hub, etc), and bring that to a guy with
even a 4th axis, he might be able to hob some teeth on there without you
requiring stitches.... You might have to buy/supply the gear cutter
(bostongear) to him as well.

You could also try boston gear, rushgear, cupla others to see if you could
modify the arbor of a std gear or sumpn.

Old B&D tools are nice stuff. Some older Bosch stuff are classics, as well.
Can you find that tool on ebay et al, scavenge one for parts?

Mebbe ole Ig can find sumpn sumpn for you, and then charge you up the ass
for it.....
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EA