On Wed, 22 May 2013 06:27:40 +0700, John B. slocomb
wrote:

On Tue, 21 May 2013 10:34:30 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:



Right now, I'm not machining anything. I have to replace the belt on
my machine. Jim Rozen gave me some belt material but now I have to
decide how to join it. Do you have any glue recommendations? I can
make a clean scarf with no problem.

Wasn't there a recent thread about joining flat belts?

Anyway, we used to use hot animal glue - hoof and hide - to join flat
leather belts. The length of the scarf is covered (I think) in the
Machinery's Handbook but is several inches.

Yeah, but there's got to be something better now.


We normally used those patented splices that look like a row of
staples for most machines though.

Dobie Dave has one of those staplers that he'll let me use, but it's
'way too wide for my belt. The one on the lathe now is stapled. But I
figured I'd just glue it.

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Ed Huntress