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Prometheus wrote:

The idle wheel is the one that spins freely when you do not have a
blade installed. I never really bothered to check to see what Delta
called it in the manual for my little benchtop one, that's just what
HE&M calls them in the big ones. Sorry for any confusion on that
point.

Ah, I was thinking along the lines of an idler pulley - to tension a
drive belt or somethingalongthoselines.
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