Searching for replacement pulley's for Peform CCL and SIP Lathes

[paragon428]

HI guys and gals
I recently have pusrchased a couple of lathes as the title suggests. I have had a search on the www but so far cannot find anywhere that I can purchase replacement variable speed pulleys. The SIP lathe pulleys have chunks missing and I am guessing that is what is leading to it chewing up belts.

Any help anyone can provide on Perform or SIP spares would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

 

[Terry - Somerset]

These are common to a lot of badge engineered lathes. Not sure whether they will be the best price but you could try Axminster who used to sell Perform lathes and are generally very good on spares supply.

 

[Ttrees]

Ebay has some I believe.
Likely a good idea to look at folks changing these out on youtube
on their Harbor Frieght flavour.
Chas (CHJ) has written a bit about these Reeves drive pulleys here with his perform machine and might have another link somewhere.

Tom

 

[Inspector]

You might want to consider removing the Reeves Drive stuff and replacing with a 3 phase motor and a VFD (variable frequency drive). It may cost more but easier to adjust the speed and with a step pulley would give you a greater range of speeds.

Pete

 

[Ttrees]

And more power, as the solid bed makes a good basis for tinkering with.

Tom

 

[clogs]

be nice to see a few pictures.......
i have a couple of machines with pulley'swith quite large chunks missing from their outter rims.....
They were a tommorow job that never came....
all I did was to file the edges off the broken bits and the belts have lasted just as long...
1 machine has a 5hp Honda driving it.....
I have enq about spares from SIP and frankly unless it is a new current model, forget it....
the inspector is quite right...almost money no object....just make sure it's ur forever lathe due cost....
put it this way.....try my way and if it fails the belts are just a few quid....then go the whole hog on doing it properly...good luck....

 

[paragon428]

be nice to see a few pictures.......
i have a couple of machines with pulley'swith quite large chunks missing from their outter rims.....
They were a tommorow job that never came....
all I did was to file the edges off the broken bits and the belts have lasted just as long...
1 machine has a 5hp Honda driving it.....
I have enq about spares from SIP and frankly unless it is a new current model, forget it....
the inspector is quite right...almost money no object....just make sure it's ur forever lathe due cost....
put it this way.....try my way and if it fails the belts are just a few quid....then go the whole hog on doing it properly...good luck....

Thanks, here are a few pics as suggested, agreed maybe for the price of a belt £5 some fettling could be the answer.

 

[Ttrees]

Bit expensive for some new ones it seems, I see Charnwood has seemingly the best price, don't seem to be on the bay anymore.
I would expect that you can get cheaper if you keep searching, as I've seen someone get a Jet one in the youtube comments for something like 12 dollars, but that was likely some time ago.
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/self-destructing-lathe.120591/https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/perform-ccbl-lathe-pulley.77672/https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/charnwood-motor-pulley-set-for-w812-w813-w870-lathe.123145/Tom

 

[njwwright]

I have a draper wtl90 with a broken pully on the motor spindle. As of Feb 2024 Charnwood still do them them for £45 but phoned Axminster and told them I have one of the Axminster version of the lathe and they sell them for £26 so considerably cheaper.
This thread was really helpful so thank you. Also another very helpful thread was https://www.awgb.co.uk/awgbforum/index.php?topic=7053.0