DD,
I have excellent control with my Bradley 300 lb Guided helve. I use a spray on belt dressng, but that should not be necessary to give you better control, it just reduces some of the slipage and gives you a quicker start up since you have so much mass to get moving with on of these hammers. Make sure the belt is tight enough, or that you can make it tight enough. There is an adjustment for the postition of the idler arm and wheel located just in front of the drive wheel on this hammer. You may need to move this so that the idle are puts more tension on the belt when at rest than it does now. On my hammer, the belt will constantaly cycle, even when the hammer is not in motion.
Patrick
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