I have made Hoss' belt drive and spindle lock. They work well together and are cheap and easy to make. You will need a lathe for the pulleys and I ground a special bit to cut the grooves for the belt but all in all less than 3 hours just messing around with it. The part that sucked was the Top plate has a shallow pocket machined into it and a large pocket milled through the part. When I was doing a cleanup pass around the large hole I forgot to clear the chips and a 1/2" endmill at around 1800 rpm found a large piece of the center that was cut out. BOOM end mill bound inbetween it and the side of the part shattering every gear except the motor gear and my steel intermediate gear I had already toasted. So the mill was down. Finished drilling the holes on my drill press and made some jigs up to hand feed the stock around and mill the pocket out on the drill press. Looks like Hell but the mill is up and running again now and I am going to make a new topplate. |