My generator head cooked and I would like to use the engine for a new
setup however the engine has a tapered shaft and the new generator
head takes a belt pulley instead of a direct hookup, where can i
obtain a pulley that will fit a tapered shaft.thanks

I think you would need to make or have made an adaptor to fit the shaft or
have a pulley of the correct size bored to match. Remember that the
generator is looking for a certain RPM so your pulleys need to match up to
provide it. The formula for figuring it out (Machineries handbook) is
D=d*s/S; D= size of the driving pulley....S= rpm's of the driving
pulley.... d=size of the driven pulley.....s=rpm's of the driven pulley.
I've been playing with this lately for my sawmill project. Also surplus
center (www.surpluscenter.com) has electric clutches to fit tapered shafts
so maybe that is a cheap way to get a pulley to fit, you could either use
the clutch or fix it in the engaged position.


AndrewV


"troye" wrote in message
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My generator head cooked and I would like to use the engine for a new
setup however the engine has a tapered shaft and the new generator
head takes a belt pulley instead of a direct hookup, where can i
obtain a pulley that will fit a tapered shaft.thanks

Could you take the "cooked" generator apart and saw off the mating
shaft? Then re attach it and put the pulley on it.

Pete Stanaitis
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troye wrote:

My generator head cooked and I would like to use the engine for a new
setup however the engine has a tapered shaft and the new generator
head takes a belt pulley instead of a direct hookup, where can i
obtain a pulley that will fit a tapered shaft.thanks

troye wrote:

My generator head cooked and I would like to use the engine for a new
setup however the engine has a tapered shaft and the new generator
head takes a belt pulley instead of a direct hookup, where can i
obtain a pulley that will fit a tapered shaft.thanks


The first step would be to measure your shaft to know taper ratio, big and small end
diameters. I'm used to snowmobiles, those things used a 1:10 taper iirc, can't remember
nominal diameter.

I did a google, Amazon sells a Briggs with a tapered shaft.
http://www.amazon.com/Briggs-Tapered.../dp/B0000AXF2P

I tried to figure out what taper is used but wasn't successful.

Once you know what you have, I'd check browning.


Wes