Mini-Mill Belt Drive Conversion

Does anyone know anything about a Turkish supplier - www.mbbilici.com ? They advertise custom built belt drive kits for most mini-mills and the photographs of the parts look very good. Most of the other suppliers do not have kits available.

I have emailed about the belt drive conversion but had no reply

Postscript - I bought the kit from Murat Bilgin BİLİCİ ([email protected]) in Turkey and I’m pleased with it. It arrived within a week, it fitted well and the machining is very good quality. The only issue I had was the design of the belt cover, it is adequate but could easily be improved, which I will do. Some photos attached without the cover for clarity.

Edited By Chris Taylor 3 on 29/01/2022 19:50:21

I have the Stirling Steele conversion kit (which I think was the original maker?) and the belt cover is a quickly-made bent piece of acrylic. Do post if you make a better one. Congrats on the belt drive, it's a wonderful upgrade.

4 Rib Poly Vee conversion will out perform any Vee Belt

The manufacturer recommends “ polyurethane 60 degree V belt for small pulleys. Minimum flection resistance, minimum powerloss, maximum belt life. Polyurethane 60 degree V belts (Japanese brand Mitsuboshi) performs appropriate and best results for small size pulleys. Cloth-coated or rubber belts are not suitable for small pulleys.”

A 4 rib belt is hardly necessary on a mini-mill!

Glad it worked out for you Chris. They certainly look like decent parts at rather good prices.

Can you take out your earplugs now?

Peter, can you explain the earplugs comment?

Oh, just that when I fitted a belt drive to my Wm-14 lookalike mill, the noise-level went down enormously.

Having burnt out a motor and mashed a gear on my WM 18 cutting holes in the new motors base and working on a belt drive is the logical way forward.

Of course the reply of "Many people fit COOLING FANS to their mills!!" from Warco did not go down too well. Most modern stuff needs to be considered a starting point these days, still. The belts and pulleys I got from Bearing Boys waits to be done. Well the 15mm by 5 mm pitch belts will be got when I measure from the job. They are pilot bore so you can choose the hole size.

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But does it do any harm ?

Very light sections are available

MichaelG.

Mine works fine 4 Ribs "J" section powered by a 1.25 hp DC motor

I there a belt conversion kit available for a Warco WM14 ? If so I would be very interested in it.

Mick

Same query for WM16. the nearest I have seen is the equivalent for Grizzly 0704 on their site, they supply kits for the 0704 but from the states, which requires large import / custom charges.

George.

I don’t know the configuration of the Warco mills, the critical criteria are usually the diameters and keyway dimensions of the spindle and of the motor shaft. The maker of the kit I purchased does a kit for one Grizzly machine, he’s very helpful and modified his kit for my machine - no harm in contacting him: https://www.mbbilici.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=57&product_id=75