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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan de Enfield View Post
    We have a small engineering company in our local village - I was hunting around the back of some of the buildings and came across one of the original buildings from the 1600's.

    I was talking with the owner who was explaining that the site and buildings was the original 300+ year old blacksmiths forge.
    There was a big steel shaft going thu the roof one one building, out and thru the next building.
    In one building was the original forge and a 'power hammer' that was driven by a belt driven from a pully-wheel on this shaft.

    It is interesting to see 100s of years old technology - not in use but still installed and which could be made to work.
    A friend of mine (who recently passed at 89) spoke about setting up belts for machinery - he showed me old catalogues (I'm sure I ended up with some) and IIRC old copies of Machinery's Handbook showed the proper setup of belt drives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Enfield View Post
    A friend of mine (who recently passed at 89) spoke about setting up belts for machinery - he showed me old catalogues (I'm sure I ended up with some) and IIRC old copies of Machinery's Handbook showed the proper setup of belt drives.

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    Industrial Antiquity - Line Shaft Pulleys and Belting
    I just dug out my copy of Machinery’s Handbook 21st edition, revised, 1981 print.
    There is an extensive section on pulleys starting with flat belt drive and applications and design of leather belts through to all the V belt types and uses. Pulley manufacture, uses and ratings for wood, cast and machined pulleys.
    It doesn’t go into design for long shaft power transmission systems.

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