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   mllester | Jan 08, 2009 04:39am | #1

   Try:

   Walker Turner Serviced Machinery, LLC
   PO Box 666
   Coventry, CT 06238
   Email: [email protected]

    

   Good info at http://www.owwm.com too.

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   PADDYDAHAT | Jan 08, 2009 07:09am | #2

   M, many thanks from me too. I was gifted a very old bench top model from my young relatives when they bought an ancient garage property to start their very successful tire business in southern Mass. It was in the back room covered in 30W oil crud. We had to take it apart to get it to my truck it was so heavy. Degreased and reassembled with a Baldor 1/2 hp. it has almost NO run out at 6" from the Jacobs chuck on drill rod with my dial indicator. God bless those monster SKF bearings. I do need the 4 step pulleys as one has a big chip that I softened the edge off to let her run. I think that she was only used to drill the rivets out of brake shoes to reline them back in the day.   Paddy

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   [email protected] | Jan 08, 2009 10:12am | #3

   The pulleys should be fairly standard, and available from most industrial supply houses, or shops that specialize in bearings belts and chains. 

   Worst case scenario would be that the center bores don't match.  But any decent machine shop could rebore them for you. 

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   PADDYDAHAT | Jan 09, 2009 01:38am | #4

   Thanks, it's not the motor pulley but the drive pulley that has that splined shaft that rises and falls up the center of the drive pulley. It's the reason for that funky, pointy cast iron top guard that you see on the WT DP's and the very early Rockwells too. I need to dig deeper into the parts. Paddy.

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   tommac | Jan 09, 2009 03:46am | #7

   Good luck with your benchtop...appreciate several good suggestions that were posted. 

   Cheers!

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   tommac | Jan 09, 2009 03:42am | #6

   Thanks!!  Will give them a shout.

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   TomHigby | Jan 09, 2009 02:10am | #5

   My experience was with an old WT wood lathe.  I got it into good shape, but had to pay a machinist to make specially sized nuts.  Nothing was standard.  Good luck!

   Tom