On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:48:20 -0500, Patriarch
wrote:

Manual belt changing is not that big a deal. This is not a lathe. I have
the Delta 17" that changes speeds by changing the belt locations. It isn't
rocket science, but it does not need doing all that often. There is little
functional difference between drilling at 500 rpm and 740 rpm

I disagree. I am SICK and TIRED of changing the belts around. I
think I use the wrong RPM maybe 80 percent of the time. Just too much
hassle to change belts.

And when you have to move the belts such that the bottom one moves up
to become the top belt, it takes even longer.

Go for variable speed. My DP is a bottle neck to work flow in my
small shop. I wish I'd kept my old cheap one, just to limit the belt
changes.


-Dan