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Listeroid Engines / Any New Thinking on Most Slip-Resistant Drive Belts?
« on: November 19, 2013, 01:35:32 AM »
So...
Looks like it's been a few years since I even thought about Listeroid stuff. I have an 8/1 India clone - now 13 years old, and, HOLY COW, I've still not built a genset out of it...
Back when I started on this, the Poly V drive was all the rage. As I recall, the main advantage was that it's possible to run the belt over the flywheel, thus saving the cost of a big sheave for the engine side. But now as I troll around eBay, there's plenty of BIG Browning Sheaves that wouldn't break the bank...
I want what's going to work best, with less regard to the cost, and my main concern is belt slip.
Anybody using a decent-sized (say 10-15") conventional 'A' or 'B' section belt sheave for the engine side of the drive? How's it workin'?
(Note that my engine is rated at 850 rpm, so I'm not needing quite the ratio of a 600 rpm engine and I have a 6 pole and 4 pole generator available)
1200/850 = 1.41
1800/850 = 2.11
Looks like it's been a few years since I even thought about Listeroid stuff. I have an 8/1 India clone - now 13 years old, and, HOLY COW, I've still not built a genset out of it...
Back when I started on this, the Poly V drive was all the rage. As I recall, the main advantage was that it's possible to run the belt over the flywheel, thus saving the cost of a big sheave for the engine side. But now as I troll around eBay, there's plenty of BIG Browning Sheaves that wouldn't break the bank...
I want what's going to work best, with less regard to the cost, and my main concern is belt slip.
Anybody using a decent-sized (say 10-15") conventional 'A' or 'B' section belt sheave for the engine side of the drive? How's it workin'?
(Note that my engine is rated at 850 rpm, so I'm not needing quite the ratio of a 600 rpm engine and I have a 6 pole and 4 pole generator available)
1200/850 = 1.41
1800/850 = 2.11