"AndyB" wrote in message
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I am about to move to my new house and I need
to move my shop (since I don't want the mover to
touch my tools)


Always fun, huh?


My question is this. The motor is on a swing
arm and is held up by tension from the drive belt.
Can I leave the motor attached (in it's normal
operating position) for the ride? I will be driving
it about 1/2 hour in a pickup truck.

It will be fine. Do yourself a favor before you go putting all sorts of
stuff on that motor to "secure" it... Grab the motor and lift it. Take
some effort? Do you really expect to subject the saw to the amount of
energy to lift that heavy motor on your drive? No - of course not. You'd
be rattling your teeth out. Your bearings and everything else associated
with that motor hanging off there are subject to a lot more forces than
you're going to expose it to during a ride in your truck.

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-Mike-