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Just got a very long, helpful email from an engineer at BRECOflex: Thanks for the inquiry. You may be right, it’s possible someone else had come to us asking if we make a replacement for these in the past. Unfortunately we don’t. The ¼” pitch is not a standard imperial belt pitch (standards...

In case anyone is wondering.... got a message back from Gates... without specs from the manufacturer, they did not want to attempt a custom replacement. I totally get it. My belt basically disintegrated, I can't even give them a good read on the length and I don't expect them to trust the...

Thanks Provincial. I read that thread as well and found the same poster on another site – contacted to see if he ever figured out anything.

Having run it for about 30 seconds and owned it for not much longer... tough for me to know what kind of life this thing has lead. I do know that it had been sitting unused for a couple of 10 years. The belt looked "rotted" to begin with.... hoped it would hold on for my light use until I could...

I got my slo-speed converter set up on my band saw and it worked for about.. maybe 30 seconds before the wider belt disintegrated. Didn't seem like a big deal but turns out it's an oddball timing belt and I'm not having any luck finding a replacement. Curious if anyone has ever successfully...

I swear you can do it. ;)

Total Guess... a little more than 160 lbs.... basically... you will not be able to move it alone (without taking it apart). I'm not the strongest person on Earth and I have moved them easily with another person of reasonable strength. With the motor and head off... I've done it alone.

I've moved 4 of these over the past few years. It depends partially on what you're transporting it in. If space is limited (I moved one of these in a Mini Cooper ;) ) and you have no other option than to take it apart, getting the head off is pretty easy. If you have the room and don't mind...

I bought a second craftsman band saw with the savage speed reducer attached a while back. I won't lie and say I got it for a steal... but considering the condition of the speed reducer, I was pretty pleased to have it for what I paid. I was going to leave it as-is... BUT... I refinished the...

Bump it up.

Bump... Know it's likely in vain but... still looking. ;)

I know it's a long shot that anyone has one of these lying around gathering dust but.... just on the off chance that you might.... I'm looking for the pedestal stand to fit model 103.1801 or 103.23700 Craftsman 6"x2" Thickness Planer (likely other models as well). The model number for the stand...

Hi, Putting a vari-slo speed control together... missing the front piece that mounts to the drill press headstock. Maybe someone out there has a donor vari-slo missing other parts that they want to sell/part? Thanks, Russell

Thanks for posting these. I appreciate the effort. beatcad... I have a basement full of cheapo stocking stuffer tape measures lying around... the good ones are down there somewhere too... I think they hide from me... :P Thanks again!

Thank you so much... I really appreciate it.