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Okay people here is the promised follow-up after the previous thread on isolating and aligning the motor and pulleys. There is a lot of oscillating belt vibration as you will see in the video. I'll use this video as my baseline to reference as I try to get rid of this vibration. The belts are currently tightened to about 1/4 inch deflection. I only ran the lathe for a few minutes, I had aligned the logos on the two belts and they are already about 3 inches off now so belts are moving vs one another on the pulleys.
The good news is the motor pulley is spinning absolutely dead on true and the motor itself is steady as granite, no movement at all. I have another video of that I'll post later, right now I have to run to Easter dinner.
[video=youtube;WjP0vwwCzCc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjP0vwwCzCc&feature=youtu.be[/video]
The good news is the motor pulley is spinning absolutely dead on true and the motor itself is steady as granite, no movement at all. I have another video of that I'll post later, right now I have to run to Easter dinner.
[video=youtube;WjP0vwwCzCc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjP0vwwCzCc&feature=youtu.be[/video]