[mnhockeydude]

So I bought a Walker Turner 2221 table saw, my first saw. I have been working on it for the last couple weeks sandblasting, painting, taking apart and oiling everything I am finely ready to put the saw back together. I am mounting the motor and the drive shift is not lining up. The motor is too far forward and the belt would be running skewed. I am thinking of putting a washer between the motor mounting plate and the Arbor to ring it out a little further. I did not notice this discrepancy when taking it apart any other suggestions?

 

[FrankC]

Is there hubs on the pulleys, if so can you reverse the pulley so hub is facing out, just a thought.

 

[mnhockeydude]

Is there hubs on the pulleys, if so can you reverse the pulley so hub is facing out, just a thought.

The belt on the motor is 1/2 inch from the arbor plate whereas the belt on the top pulls is 1 inch from the arbor plate. Being that the belts are fairly loose would this difference affect the life of the bearings?

 

[dodgeboy77]

If you are putting all the same parts back together again, something isn't right. With that much angle on short belts, you will go through belts like crazy.

I like Frank's idea of checking to see if a pulley is reversed. Did you have the arbor assembly apart? Could there be an alignment problem there? I can see that you have the motor backed all the way out on it's mounting slots.

Bill

 

[mnhockeydude]

If you are putting all the same parts back together again, something isn't right. With that much angle on short belts, you will go through belts like crazy.

I like Frank's idea of checking to see if a pulley is reversed. Did you have the arbor assembly apart? Could there be an alignment problem there? I can see that you have the motor backed all the way out on it's mounting slots.

Bill

Thanks for the response , I never took the pulley off off the motor mount or the arbor. I did find some set screws on the drive pulley that I did not notice before. I took those out and pushed it back so it lined up. It looks pretty good now. There are three belts and I replaced two of them with a link v-belt. It is running really well now with practically no vibration.

Thanks for all of the input! I will put up pictures when I am done. This project really made me appreciate this older machines!