Trouble attaching brammer belt onto a boxford mark III lathe

Hi,

I am having trouble attaching a brammer belt to a boxford mark III lathe. The belt is rubbing on the head stock and on the square the belt passes into the cabinet. I have attached 2 pics. Can anyone help in informing me how to attach the belt properly?

Hard to tell from the pictures but I think that only one run of the belt passes through the hole at the rear of the suds tray. The front run of the belt passes down through the centre of the headstock.

I have the same lathe and belt but have never had the rear headstock cover off so never actually seen the belt other than inside the motor compartment.

Ian P

Hi, my Boxford MkII underdrive belt is exactly as Ian has explaned.

Regards Nick.

Ok, so let's establish some things,

Is this lathe new to you ?

If so did it come in bits or are you having to replace missing items ?

If we assume that the pulley on the headstock is correct - reasonable due to its position etc then the rubbing must be down to what's happening at the countershaft end. Either the pulley on it is too large in dia. It's in the wrong place or the countershaft is misaligned. I can't recall how much adjustment is available on the countershaft as I never had the part of my AUD in pieces (no longer have it). Can you post some pics of the motor cabinet side of things or the pile of bits that you have ? This is to check that you have the right arrangement - on mine some idiot had removed the countershaft on the motor end so the whole thing ran far too fast.

Tony

You have got both runs of the belt going through the same side one run has to go down through the middle of the bed pic shows two cut outs in the bed where the belt should run one inner one to the rear.

Paul

Thank you guys for the comments. I had not realised the other end of the belt goes through the middle of the bed. I am completely new to this. I don't think I would have realised by myself . I don't thing it will rub once I do this.

This lathe is new to me. It came complete, appart that the belt was not attached and that I had to attached a cable to it and a 3phase socket. I wil move the counter shaft so that the belt runs free. I will post a pic.