Thanks, Hul,

Gonna give that a shot tonight. Separately, do you know how you tighten/loosen the tension on the v-belt?

Cheers!

Dave



On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 1:54:10 PM UTC-7, Hul Tytus wrote:
Dave - a possibility: remove the v belt; remove the retaining ring holding
the v belt/flat belt pulley & slide the pulley off the shaft. Now put the
replacement flat belt around the motor pulley & shaft for the combination
pulley and slide the pulley on the shaft and within the flat belt. Ought
to work...

Hul

On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 4:22:21 PM UTC-7, Hul Tytus wrote:
Dave - the machine I use is, like yours, by number an Enco 9x20. It has 2
belts, a v type & flat one. The v can be shifted from speed to speed with
no adjustments by forcing the belt off one channel of one sheave & forcing
on with the other. Sounds like what you are doing. You may have the
tension adjusted too tight. Maybe you need a different length v belt. But,
what you are doing is, by my experience, doable.

Hul


I have an ENCO (now MSC) lathe and the motor drive belt broke. Unlike the v-belt, there does not seem to be an obvious way to loosen the tension and my first attempt to replace the belt resulted in a broken belt. Does anyone have a video or a couple photos showing how I can release tension to install new belt?

It is a Chinese 9 X 20 late with the original model number being ENCO 110-0820, but then I have some other model numbers that I think are the MSC numbers: Model CQ6123B and 1100517.

Thanks--

Dave

Hi, Hul--I'm actually trying to replace the flat one. The v-belts I can do, but the flat one is toast and I can't quite figure out how to loosen tension enough to put it on. I'm going to try Leon's idea of loosening a nut....if I can find that nut. If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em! Thanks!