Arlin

I have a completely new belt on there now with new alligator clips. It's stretching but for now, I am able to take up the slack with the treddle adjustment.

Hey Salem! I actually talked with you on the phone a few months ago about this hammer! I modelled my motor tower after yours if you couldn't tell. For now, I am running the small pulley on the drive side but I plan on making/acquiring a much larger one. I am also working on getting rid of flex I have a few ideas on minimizing that.  It has been a while since I have updated this thread but the hammer is running nicely now. I am still adjusting and learning the best way to run the machine but it is working.  There are a few problems I want to address with the hammer that I would like some input on here in the next few weeks. I cant work on it now I am at a week-long festival demonstrating.

The brake is free and responds well to adjustments. We have ironed out a few kinks in the linkage. I think the main difficulty there is we have such little movement in the clutch system. I think I might lengthen the white bar going through the frame of the hammer. If it isnt adjusted to the extreme it bottoms out against the hammer.

I have ordered a new belt it should be here on monday. Besides that anything else you guys see?

I am in Southwest Virginia!

Ok so I bought a Beaudry #9 power hammer back in November and am finally able to set it up. The flat belt system is confusing me and I am having a hard time finding literature or reference on how this stuff is supposed to be set up.

I have a jack shaft driven by a 10hp motor. Unfortunately the drive wheel is about half the size of the flywheel on the hammer. I wish I could find a larger one. As of right now I am testing with an old worn out canvas belt that I got with the hammer. My main problem is around belt length and tension. The belt is supposed to spin with the jack shaft around the flywheel on the hammer until you engage the clutch pulley. The only way I was able to achieve this was for the belt to be rather loose. I am also finding that the hammer is difficult to engage initially but once it is running it is very responsive to clutch tension. As of right now it takes almost all of my weight to engage the hammer then after that its really easy to regulate.

Am I missing something obvious? Ill add pictures tomorrow if it would help.